Experience farms

A family vacation in the countryside in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is not only captivating because of its nature-oriented recreation, but above all offers plenty of room for exciting discoveries on the numerous adventure farms.Apples straight from the tree, potatoes fresh from the field, eggs from the farm and milk from the barn -- in rural tranquility, the farmers explain to curious children how the cow is milked and the sheep sheared or the beets come out of the ground.Traditional crafts can be admired in living open-air museums and huge art barns. Here, people still make pottery, felt, knit and bake just like in grandma's day.

At our adventure farms, the focus is on fun and games. Ride the Kettcars across the terrain, climb high in the climbing garden or make the hayloft in the barn unsafe, whether pony riding or alpaca hiking – boredom is not an option here. The animals on the farm, whether chickens, sheep or donkeys, look forward to visitors and love to be fed and stroked. The farmer will take you through the barn and if you like, you can try your hand at milking a cow or giving the calf a bottle. Especially during the vacations, there is a varied program for all ages.And while the children are exploring the farm, the adults can enjoy a little break with coffee and cake in the farm café.

What exactly do you actually do in the field? Why do you need such big tractors? And what happens to the milk before it is packaged? Questions üabout questions... Today, one farmer feeds around 140 people. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - as in the other new federal states - the agricultural structure is dominated by large, modern farming operations as a result of land reform. Some of these farms give visitors the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes.

During a tour of a dairy farm, you can find out what the cows eat, the advantages of modern barn construction and why milking is so important. At the end, there is always a little detour to the cute little cows.nbsp;Harvest enthusiasts can lend a hand themselves and bring their own crops to light. In MV, you can help bring in asparagus, potatoes and sea buckthorn. There are also self-planting fields for strawberry lovers.

Technology enthusiasts will really get their money's worth on a large farm. A lot of horsepower is needed to ensure that the large areas of land can be worked properly, and it s not just in the form of tractors and combine harvesters that make it onto the farm. For example, have you ever seen a rübenroder 

As always, horses' hooves clatter over humped cobblestones and the bubbling of a tractor blows through the colorful meadows. Exciting adventure farms and living museums, where visitors of all ages can be creative themselves, tell of old crafts. Who today still knows what a working day in the countryside was like for our grandparents and great-grandparents, or how grain was harvested and bread baked?

Young vacationers and their parents can explore the country life of bygone times in open-air museums and on historic farms. Curious visitors can learn what rural life was like in the past with the help of old machines and tools as well as lovingly collected mementos. Children can rummage everywhere, climb up on old combine harvesters and even take the big steering wheel in their own hands once in a while. From the historic mill to fresh bread from the wood-burning oven, from sheep shearing to spun wool thread - traditional crafts are brought back to life here.