Yahoo News The wildlife park home to three polar bears run by TV star a short drive from Essex
Jimmy's Farm, located a 33 minute drive from Colchester, is a well-known tourist attraction and working farm owned by Jimmy Doherty, a television personality and farmer. The farm gained fame through the television series "Jimmy's Farm," which followed Doherty's efforts to turn a neglected piece of land into a thriving business.
The farm is set apart from the rest due to its range of rescued animals, most notably its stunning polar bears. Flocke (age 16) and Tala (age 4) joined Jimmy’s Farm & Wildlife Park, from Yorkshire Wildlife Park as part of the EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria ) Ex-situ Programme whose aim is conserving and safeguarding healthy populations of threatened species and animals in captivity.
They have joined Ewa, who came to the park in 2023, in a multi-functional enclosure called ‘The Lost Lands of the Tundra’ which incorporates other tundra species including reindeer, arctic wolves, and arctic foxes. However, the wildlife park is also home to 100 species and breeds from capybara to crocodiles and pigs to tortoises!
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The farm also makes a brilliant day out for all the family, equipped with a shop, refreshment options, animal experience and adoption options and educational talks.
Jimmy’s Farm began on an old dairy farm on the outskirts of Ipswich. Jimmy dreamt of a full restoration, returning the totally derelict farm back to a fully working, thriving livestock farm.
His vision was to only use traditional, free-range farming methods with 100% traceability, rearing rare and domestic breeds from the UK and now Jimmy’s Farm & Wildlife Park is an award-winning Wildlife Park, rare breed farm, restaurant and wedding venue based in the heart of Suffolk.
The park is centre of excellence for British rare breeds as well as camels, primates, tapir and crocodiles amongst other animals. Jimmy’s vision and belief that the natural world should be accessible and available to all is an ongoing but hopeful, promising and encouraging mission.
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