Staff, volunteers and visiting children at our Lower Treginnis farm were delighted to welcome a very special guest this week, as Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal joined them for a visit on Wednesday.
The Princess Royal has been a Patron of Farms for City Children since 1991. She last visited Lower Treginnis in 2019 and we were delighted to welcome her back to our coastal farm in St Davids.
During the visit, The Princess Royal enjoyed a tour of the farm, meeting children from Pembroke Dock Community School as they groomed the farm’s donkeys, fed our rare-breed piglets and planted out red onion seedlings in the farm’s market garden.
The Princess also joined children for a workshop by Câr y Môr, Wales’ first regenerative seaweed and shellfish farm, who work directly off the coast of Lower Treginnis.
Accompanied by our Farm School Manager, Gethin, Her Royal Highness then met representatives from our supporters, The Friends of Treginnis. The group has worked closely with us since 1991, and in the last three years alone, has raised over £30,000 to support visits from schools in the Pembrokeshire area. This includes Pembroke Dock Community School, our ‘farmers for a week’ at the time of the visit.
Ahead of her departure, The Princess Royal was introduced to members of staff and our local partner farmer Aled Davies, before being presented with a gift of farm produce and flowers by Erin Hubbard and Jack Kinnard, pupils from Pembroke Dock Community School.
Our Head of Operations, Tim Rose said:
“We were delighted to welcome The Princess Royal to Lower Treginnis and to share the experience of being ‘farmers for a week’ with her. Her visit was greatly enjoyed by everyone at the farm and it was our pleasure to be able to show her how the work of the charity interacts with so many different aspects of the Pembrokeshire community.
“We are hugely appreciative of Her Royal Highness’s continued support and enthusiasm for the work that we do.”
