The countryside came to Ely Cathedral on Saturday and Sunday for the annual harvest festival weekend.

Ely Standard: Ely Cathederal harvest festival. Picture: Steve Williams.Ely Cathederal harvest festival. Picture: Steve Williams. (Image: Archant)

Sheep, chickens, farm machinery and food and flower displays took centre stage within the cathedral as farmers and local producers showcased a wide variety of produce grown in the Fens.

The theme of this year’s festival was Harvest Past, Present and Future to mark the centenary of NFU Cambridgeshire.

Sheep supplied by farmers Mark Drew and Frances Cook from Rampton, found a temporary home inside the cathedral, along with chickens provided by Westmoor House smallholding, near Littleport.

There was an Allis-Chalmers Model B tractor, dating back to the 1940s and photographs of farm scenes from the 1960s and free recipe booklets.

Organisations taking part this year included Cambridgeshire Beekeepers, the Farmland Museum at Denny Abbey, G’s Growers at Barway, Farming and Countryside Education, and NIAB, the National Institute of Agricultural Botany.