Visitors to Denhay Farm will be able to learn how its famous cheddar is made during the farm’s open day on June 12.

The day is part of the sixth annual Open Farm Sunday run by the charity Leaf, Linking Environment And Farming, which helps farmers and producers to manage their farms as efficiently and sustainably as possible.

Cheese lovers will be able to find out the techniques and ingredients used in the cheese production process.

Open Farm Sunday visitors can use Denhay’s viewing platform to watch afternoon milking, there will be talks on cheese-making and a chance to see the store where all the traditional cheddars mature, for up to a year or longer.

It is a quarter mile from the cheesehouse to the dairy, so visitors can either walk or take a tractor and trailer ride.

The walk includes special cow tracks which go past some of the woods on the farm, with views stretching from Lyme Regis to Portland Bill.

Open Farm Sunday is the only day in the year when farmers across the whole of the UK unite to open their farms to the public.

A Leaf survey showed 35 per cent of people don’t know porridge comes from British farms, 23 per cent of people don’t know flour is grown here and 22 per cent are ignorant of the fact that sausages and bacon come from pig farms.