Diary entry · First-week history · finale added 26 October
Community memories from the first pumpkin week
The season’s community story now includes the completed hinged photo display and the finale’s thanks to visitors, neighbours, invited school visitors, food traders and the team. Photo reuse still requires permission.
Neighbours, school visitors and shared memories
The 19 October mega vlog describes a local school invitation and complimentary invitations for selected neighbours. Tom also describes a planned conversation with a local council representative. These are specific invitations and a reported planned meeting, not a general free-entry scheme, an open school-booking offer or a new permission or funding announcement.
The photo booth and growing visitor-photo wall capture memories from week one. Tom repeatedly asks visitors to tag the official farm account. Tagging is not permission for this fan site to republish an image; any future gallery needs approved photographs.
The Joshua Bradley is named as a place where team members and visitors gather in the dated account. That does not identify it as the business behind an earlier unnamed 20% offer. Pub promotions remain outside live visitor offers until the businesses verify their full terms.
20 October: further invitations for selected neighbours
Further invitations are being delivered to selected neighbouring roads and households in the 20 October vlog, extending the earlier community gesture. These are specific complimentary invitations, not automatic free admission for every local resident or an open invitation programme.
Tom again directs visitors to Unity Mill and asks them to respect posted speed limits and keep residents’ driveways and business entrances clear. Retained earlier guidance is £3 cash with correct change and a two-hour parking maximum, separate from the 90-minute farm session. The new vlog reconfirms the car park, not its fee or maximum stay. Use official directions rather than a guessed road name from automatic captions.
23 October: invited neighbours attend
Tom relays the entrance team’s feedback that neighbours who received letters attended with their invitations and left pleased with the event (22:24–23:11). This advances the earlier invitation-delivery story to reported attendance and positive feedback. It is not automatic free admission for every local resident, an open school-booking offer or independent survey evidence.
Keep visitor routes, vendor fronts, entrances and exits clear. Meeting Tom or getting a photograph is not guaranteed, and visitor-photo reuse still requires permission; tagging the farm is not consent.
26 October finale: season complete
The planned hinged photo wall became a completed picture-book display in use during the patch. The finale thanks the wider community and describes invited schoolchildren visiting the cattle while Papa Ken feeds them; this is not an open school-booking or public animal-feeding product. Social tags do not grant this fan site permission to reuse photographs.