A Southampton farm is championing inclusivity by introducing British Sign Language signs on their trail.

Southampton City Farm have installed the new displays to help people of all abilities interact with their animals and vegetable patches.

The signs show illustrations of characters performing the words for the animals at the farm and the fruit, vegetables and plants growing in the garden.

BSL signage shows visitors how to sign the word goat - while a goat pokes his head through the fence.BSL signage shows visitors how to sign the word goat - while a goat pokes his head through the fence. (Image: Southampton City Farm) Other visuals explain how to say words like “flower," "jump," "skip” and the four seasons of the year.

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Southampton City Farm manager Tom Kitcher said: “We’re community led and we try to listen to feedback as much as possible, and in a recent consultation form, there was some feedback that people would love to see some more signage.

“People wanted to see BSL, so we worked with Hubbub, and they helped us with an inclusive nature grant.

“We’ve managed to build some garden beds that are accessible to wheelchairs with that money, and we had some left over money so we wanted to use that to bring the BSL trail.”

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Southampton City Farm manager Tom Kitcher standing in a greenhouse.Southampton City Farm manager Tom Kitcher standing in a greenhouse. (Image: Southampton City Farm) Tom said the trail was designed with help from the community at each stage:  “A lot of our community ambassadors and volunteers fed back about it, so we were improving on each draft until we got it right.

“We’re so proud, we’re a community farm, we have hundreds of people a week of different abilities on the farm, from children struggling with mainstream school to adults with learning disabilities.

“We wanted to display something that was not only including their thoughts and ideas, but also the farm is everyone, even if they can’t communicate in the conventional way.”

Southampton City Farm and the neighbouring café are opening to the public at weekends from 11am-4am.

Farm staff hold scheduled talks and free feeds throughout the day for visitors to interact with.