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Farms & Petting Farms in Reading
Reading has a good clutch of farms close to home. Riverways Farm is only a short drive out and lets you meet free range hens and alpacas before picking your own strawberries and raspberries, Lockey Farm has a zipline and bouncy pillows alongside its café and pizzeria, and Mortimer Alpacas lets you hand feed alpacas on a walk then picnic with them afterwards. For something further out, Hallcourt Farm's five acre pumpkin patch and spooky woodland trail are worth the trip. For toddlers, Oxford City Farm is free and has a sandpit alongside the goats, while Gatehampton's lambing days near Reading suit older children who can help meet the rare bronze-age sheep with an adult close by. If a farm visit feels like a big ask, Farms2ewe brings goats, lambs and a Shetland pony straight to your door. Come pumpkin season, the Berkshire Farm Girl patch in Thatcham and Copas Farms in Iver both offer maize mazes to get lost in before you weigh your haul, though Iver is a longer trip out.
14 places 1 free to visit
Berkshire Farm Girl Pumpkin Patch Newbury M4 J13
Thatcham
Pick your own pumpkin and take on a maize maze at this October patch just off the M4.
Booking required
Bishop's Court Farm
Wallingford
Walk an alpaca, meet the sheep and goats, then warm up with a proper coffee at the farm's own café.
CaféDog friendlyFree parkingVegetarian options
from £1.20Copas Farms PYO The Fruit Fields Pumpkin Picking
Iver · ages 2+
Weekend pumpkin picking across the fields, with a maize maze to get lost in before you weigh your haul.
Outdoor playParking
Farms2ewe
Newbury
A mobile farm that brings goats, orphan lambs and a Shetland pony to you, for stroking, feeding and grooming rather than a static farm visit.
Booking required
Gatehampton
Reading
Farm tours and lambing days near Reading where kids can meet a rare bronze-age sheep breed, adult by their side the whole time.
Booking requiredFree parking
from £6.50Hallcourt Farm
Reading · ages 2-10
A five acre pumpkin patch with a spooky woodland trail, giant hay bales to climb and pumpkin carving thrown in.
Baby changeBooking requiredCaféFree parking+4 more
Lockey Farm
Reading
Toy tractors, a zipline and bouncy pillows to bounce out the whole morning, with a café and pizzeria on site.
CaféFood on siteOutdoor play
from £9.95Millets Wildside
Abingdon · ages 3-15
Birds of prey flying displays, meerkats and lemurs to meet, with hands-on handling for the over-eights.
Baby changeBirthday partiesFree parkingGroup bookings+3 more
Mortimer Alpacas
Reading · up to age 12
Hand feed alpacas on a short farm walk, then settle in for a picnic with them by your side.
Accessible toiletBooking requiredPicnics allowed
from £1Nathan's Farm
Chalfont St. Giles
Feed the animals, hold a baby chick and go egg collecting at a small petting farm with its own café.
Birthday partiesCaféGift shopIndoor play+1 more
FreeOxford City Farm
Oxford
Free mornings among goats and vegetable beds, with a sandpit for the little ones and goat milking to watch if the timing's right.
Group bookingsFood on siteOutdoor playSchool visits+2 more
Riverways Farm
Reading
A working farm where you can meet free range hens and alpacas, then pick your own strawberries and raspberries.
from £1The Bucks Goat Centre
Aylesbury · ages 2-15
A hands-on farm where you feed goats, alpacas, rabbits and ferrets, with picnic tables outside for lunch.
Birthday partiesCaféFirst aidFree parking+4 more
Widmer Farm Park
Princes Risborough
Stroke the farm animals, paint some pottery and, come October, pick your own pumpkin from the stable courtyard.
Birthday partiesCaféIndoor playFood on site+2 more
Good to know: farms & petting farms in Reading
Are any of them free?
Yes, Oxford City Farm is free to visit.
What does a paid visit cost?
Paid entry starts from £1 at Nathan's Farm. Prices, ages and facilities are listed on every place page, taken from each venue's own published price list.
Whereabouts are they?
You'll find farms & petting farms in Thatcham, Wallingford, Iver, Newbury, Reading and 5 more. Every place we list is in or around Reading, and each listing has the full address and directions.
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