Late Late Toy Show star Sheamie Garrihy encourages Roscommon schools to visit 'The Lidl Farm'

Budding young farmer and star of The Late Late Toy Show Sheamie Garrihy has joined forces with Lidl to officially open ‘The Lidl Farm’, welcoming primary schools from County Roscommon to visit for the 2024 school season.

Located at Lidl’s Regional Distribution Centre in Newbridge, County Kildare, Lidl was the first Irish retailer to launch a free farm experience where school children can trace the farm to fork story, beginning with the soil, through an outdoor classroom experience.

Since its launch in October 2022, the Lidl Farm has welcomed more than 4,000 school children and 400 teachers from primary schools across the length and breadth of Ireland.

Developed with The Lidl Farm’s official education partner Agri Aware and key supplier Meade Farm, this unique experience set across 8.5 acres of farmland is completely free* and provides students with an insight into how many everyday products grown and harvested locally by Lidl’s network of Irish suppliers make their way from the farm to the shelves of their local Lidl store.

Led by Agri Aware’s Education Officers, students participate in a combination of hands-on activities and discussions, seeing first-hand how crops are grown and learning the best practice of livestock farming.

Each educational experience ends with a train ride through Lidl Regional Distribution Centre where students learn about the retailer’s quality check process and how fruit and vegetables are stored to ensure that produce is fresh when it arrives to a Lidl store.

Tours run on The Lidl Farm twice a year - from March to June, and from September to October. To learn more and for schools to register an interest in visiting, please visit thelidlfarm.abettertomorrow-lidl.ie