Parent and Toddler Coffee Mornings
Every weekday during term time, come and enjoy the farm park and meet up with friends with this great offer. You even get a FREE hot drink!
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We aim to offer farmyard fun for all ages, all year round, in the fresh air and tranquillity of the countryside! We have a plethora of lovely animals to meet, feed and cuddle, an indoor play barn to have fun in, go-karts to ride around on, a shop to browse and a cosy café to visit. Our riding school is also open all year round and offers lessons or hacking for all abilities as well as short pony rides.
What's on!
Term Time Fun at the Farm Park:
Lots to do during the week and at weekends….
There’s always plenty to do at the farm park, whatever the weather. Why not get a bag of animal feed and hand feed some of our lovely animals as you wander the farm park and visit our indoor animals in our barn and Ark; take time for the children to enjoy our super indoor play barn, The Rainforest, while you relax with a coffee; experience other play areas with our go-karts, bouncy castle, outdoor play equipment and sand-pit and take time for some delicious homemade food in our Garden Room café.
On weekdays during term time, we have structured times for events such as small animal handling, meerkat feeding and pony grooming (with lamb bottle feeding from Spring to mid-summer too). At the weekends we also have ferret racing, wallaby encounters and short pony rides for the little ones available too (£2.50 a go)! Events can be subject to change and timings can be found on our daily Facebook page updates here.
Halloween & October Half Term Fun!
Join us for spooky fun over October Half Term! (Sat 26th Oct- Sun 3rd Nov)
We have lots of super activities to get involved in, including pumpkin carving, treasure hunts, spooky guided tours, witches' workshops and traditional funfair games! All of this, plus there's the usual interactive animal delights of Matlock Farm Park.
There are special event days with Creepy Critters, a fantastic array of reptiles, insects and more, as well as The Great Lorenzo who will be joining us for fun magic shows.
On Halloween itself, we have an extra ticketed event on the evening, our Little Monsters Halloween Party. Find out more ...
Christmas at Matlock Farm Park
'It's the most WONDERFUL time of the year' - see what we have planned ....
Why not treat the children to a really special Christmas experience? We'll be running our great Breakfasts with Santa (pre-book only) on Weekends from 30th November to 22nd December; there will also be Santa's Grotto experiences running through the day at weekends, with a wonderful opportunity to have a Christmas pony ride to take you on your journey to the grotto - lovely!
Delicious Christmas Lunches will be served from 30th November until Christmas Eve, with our fantastic pre-book offer, not to be missed.
Our popular live nativities will again be on offer for schools and nurseries to pre-book for weekdays through December.
Throughout the Christmas holiday season, there will be all the usual animal fun too with daily meerkat feeds, small animal handling, pony grooming, wallaby encounter and more!*
(*weather permitting)