13th and 14th March 2010
From: 10am - 5pm
Something for all ages

As part of National Science Week, I am planning a fantastic Science Festival to get us all excited about science in food, farming and animals.

The Science Festival will feature:

• Science Shows (Inside)
• Science Workshops (Inside) 
• Hands On Activities (Outside)
• Exhibitors (Inside)
• Freebies
• Lamb Feeding (10am and 2pm Outside)
• Nature Trail Access (Guinea Pigs, Goats, Ferrets)
• Animal Petting and Feeding
• Darwin's Garden
• Live Music
• Roast Pork Stand
• Hot and Cold Food
• Bar

To celebrate National Science Week and the farms education programme I am letting all children come to the event for FREE!!! (includes access to the Nature Trail)

Adults tickets are £5 in advance (online) and £6 on the gate (includes access to the Nature Trail).

Let us know if you are coming on our Science Festival Facebook Group page!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=307786077647

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From: 12pm and 2pm in the Marquee

Marty Jopson the science bloke from BBC - The One Show and Jimmy will be on stage at the Science Festival!

12pm - Experiments that Changed History - good family entertainment, bang, mess and silliness.

2pm - Body Tricks - stupid things you can do with your body and the science behind them.

Find out more about Marty on his website!

Lance Edwards 'The Boffin Baker'  - Science in Food - Hands on Food Workshop

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 10.30pm and 3.30pm in the Marquee

Paul Butlin - Crazy Chemistry - Fun with Chemicals

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 1.00pm in the Marquee

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 11am – 1pm and 2.30pm - 5.00pm

Could you put a skewer through a balloon without it popping? Could you make a soda fountain? These are just a few of the amazing tricks that you can learn to show off to your friends.

A squad of scientists from Science: [So what? So everything] will be attended Jimmy’s Farm science festival, to entice people of all ages to take a look at their demonstrations, and learn about how exciting science can be.

They will be handing out fabulous goodies to help you try some of the tricks at home, as well as giving away ice cream made with liquid nitrogen! To see some of this science magic in advance and other great DIY Science, visit www.direct.gov.uk/sciencesowhat

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 11am, 1pm and 3pm 

SAM and DAISY... are brother and sister singer/songwriters...who write and play original music together!

Caela and Jimmy asked them to play at their wedding and at the Harvest at Jimmy's Festival.

To listen...and watch... go to...
http://www.samanddaisy.co.uk

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 10am - 5pm in the Barn

Get interactive on the Dairy Farm Science Stand (Institute for Animal Health) which combines the practicalities of raising a milking herd and getting milk from them, with a bit of science about keeping the animals healthy. Plus lots of food stuff demonstrating the wide range of processed foods that contain milk and milk products.

On the stand you can get your hands on, watch and explore:

• Milking and pregnancy - With life-size fibreglass cows
• Microscopes - Look for Ticks and Midges which can spread viruses
• Animal feedstuffs - Get your hands in to containers containing maize, rape seed, sileage, molasses etc
• Food items that contains dairy products
• The Laboratory and Health Centre area
• A milking cartoon video

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 10am - 5pm in the Barn

Through discussions and demonstrations, they will also show how animal welfare can be scientifically assessed to determine an animal’s needs and wants, and provide information for legislation, management and husbandry. They will be more than happy to answer any questions about careers in animal welfare and veterinary sciences.     

Saturday 13th March
From 10am - 5pm in the Barn

Animal Mark will show a heart dissection (pig)...repeated through the day, with explanations of diseases and illnesses and what we are doing to help at the University, showing the rat hearts we work with and getting a few volunteers to help! He will also be inflating lungs (hopefully pig) to show their change in size, a bit about illneesses and also diving affects (hopefully).

He will bring some of the hardier snakes for the public to meet and handle and will show what research they have helped with, to do with muscle injuries, atrophication in bedbound and paralysed humans and home understanding how hibernating reptiles can help cure this. He will also bring down some microscopes with a few bacterial cultures from human skin to show the yuckies we have on us and if Andy the Stockman can find any some pig lice (can't get human 'nits'/lice as I've cured my kids of them!). Posters of the work we do, course leaflets, freebie pens etc.

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 10am - 5pm in the Barn

Dr Karin Alton of the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University of Sussex, will be bringing honey bees in an observation hive and will describe how her laboratory are trying to help reverse the decline in honey bees.

Pam Gregory from Bees Abroad will be holding an introduction to the science of bees and their importance to the British countryside. You can also talk about sustainable beekeeping and how you can help in ways, big and small.

You can also roll your own wax candle (small donation required) and take it home with you!

Find out more about Bees Abroad at: http://www.beesabroad.org.uk

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 10am - 5pm in the Barn

Turn solids into liquids on the pottery and wax stand!

You can also hand paint a pottery item*. Ideal for Mothers Day.

*Small charge for pottery item applies.

Sunday 14th March
From 10am - 5pm in the Barn

Clive Stacey, Education Officer at Colchester Museum will be running 3 presentations where you will be able to interact with a 5 metres long ‘time line’ that you can put objects on, to give an idea of when such things were around!

This could be a mix of natural history items (e.g. a grey squirrel, a deer, bit of a mammoth) and historical items, to help give context (e.g. Roman objects, Victorian objects). During the presentation visitors will be invited to put these objects on the line where they think appropriate. The clincher is the dinosaur bone!!!

Sunday 14th March
From 10am - 5pm in the Barn

Dr Greenwood from Coventry University will give forensics workshops, he'll bring the ESLA (Electrostatic Lifting Apparatus) to show how you can 'lift' footprints from 'invisible traces (you get to take your invisible print home), lots of false blood to splatter everywhere.

More microscopes to show differences in hair (bring your own) a device that looks at fingerprint patterns and the good old fingerprinting sets. He has other stuff...all very C.S.I.

Sunday 14th March
From 11am

The Suffolk Federation of Young Farmers Clubs will be looking at the finer points of livestock at Jimmy's Farm on Sunday 14th March. 

You can watch teams and individuals from each of the senior and junior clubs taking on the challenge of the stockjudging competitions.  Each competitor will be given 3 rings of stock to judge (cattle, pigs and sheep) and will be asked to place each animal in a class i.e 1st-4th.  These will be compared with the judges placings and scored accordingly (that's where the science bit really comes into play)! 

The competitors will be looking at the animals as butchers lambs, pork pigs and butchers beef cattle and not going for the animal that looks prettiest - we hope!  Once the scores have been submitted to the judges the competitors will then be asked to give the reasons behind their decisions and be judged on how well they convey their answers, how they come across and how well informed they are on current market requirements.

The Junior competitors (aged 10-16) will be asked to complete a multiple choice animal health and husbandry questionnaire whereas the seniors (16-30) will just have to answer the questions without the help of multiple choices.

All of these scores will be added together to give the winning Junior and Senior Stockman of the Year title and this people will go on to represent Suffolk at the Eastern Area round of the competition at South Suffolk Show.

This competition presents members with the opportunity to put their training to the test by judging high quality live stock and presenting their findings to industry experts Judging skills include: observation, understanding of the make-up of the animal and market demands.

This competition is one of the longest standing, most traditional elements of the Young Farmers calendar and is a fantastic demonstration of the skills that Young People today need to be able to run livestock enterprises successfully.

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 11am and 2.00pm

You can feed the orphan lambs at 11am and 2pm on our Nature Trail.

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March 
From 10am - 5pm

Visit Darwin's Garden at Jimmy's Farm. The garden is designed to reflect Jimmy's own interest in Charles Darwin. 

Jimmy became even more interested in Darwin  when recently filming a new BBC programme all about Darwin that will be aired on BBC2 in 2009.  He was determined to bring some of his findings back to the farm!

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March 
From 10am - 5pm

Get up close and personal to our animals on our Nature Trail.

We have a Guinea Pig Village, Ferret World, Rabbit Mountain, Goats, Boggy Bottom and lots of rare breed chickens and ducks in Chicken Safari to see. Also try to spot our peacocks!

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March 
From 10am - 5pm

Explore our beautiful woods and build dens and shelters!

Den building is something that we have all done as children and it helps us create a bond with nature.  We want to encourage children to get out into the outdoors and building dens in the woods is an activity that all children can enjoy and take part in.

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March 
From 10am - 5pm

How many creepy crawlies can you spot on a minibeast hunt?

They like dark, damp places so investigate leaf piles, under logs and tiny nooks and crannies.

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March
From 10am - 5pm in Caela's Herb Garden

Our Jimmy's Farm Field Kitchen is situated in the old cattle yard, in the heart of Caela's beautiful Herb Garden. A real Jimmy's Farm breakfast or lunch is available. 

National Science and Engineering Week takes the nation by storm with hundreds of events and activities during 12–21 March 2010!