It's the 4th Annual Durham Farm Day.

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Everyone is welcome to take a tour of two UNH farms on Saturday during the 4th annual Durham Farm Day.

The farms include the Woodman Horticultural Research Farm and the Fairchild Dairy Farm. Both tours are free.

“The purpose of Durham Farm Day is to celebrate the important and impressive working landscape of farms, forests, backyard gardens, community gardens and agricultural research taking place in Durham. Agricultural commission members are dedicated volunteers with a wide variety of backgrounds, working together to call attention to food security, nutrition, farmland conservation, and local farm retention. As we like to say, ‘If you eat, you're in,’” said Theresa Walker, chair of the Durham Agricultural Commission.

Durham Farm Day is presented by the Durham Agricultural Commission.

Woodman Farm will conduct public tours at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.; preregistration is required. Please sign up for farm tours by Aug. 19 with Theresa Walker of the Durham Agricultural Commission at 603-659-7226.

The award-winning Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center is one of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station’s two dairy farms. It houses about 90 milking-age cows and approximately 70 growing, replacement animals.

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