Farmers throughout the country will open their gates on Sunday and invite their urban cousins to see the views they do.
Organised by Federated Farmers, Otago people are invited to Telford Rural Polytechnic.
Also, farms as diverse as the country's largest, Molesworth Station in Marlborough, right through to an organic goat-milking farm in the Waikato, will give visitors an insight into what happens on a daily basis.
Telford was a dedicated rural skills educator, and has working sheep, beef, dairy, deer and forestry farms, as well as apiary and equine centres.
Federated Farmers president Don Nicholson said the aim of the day was to create a better understanding and improve connections between town and country.
It will also allow farmers to show the wider public what farmers did each day, the chance to see farm ecosystems and the farming profession in action.
"We look forward to explaining how farmers farm, what farmers do and why agriculture is so important to New Zealand.
"This is not a sanitised farm experience but a chance to meet real farmers and talk about farming practices," he said.
Many city children thought milk came from a carton and meat from a supermarket refrigerator.
"We hope that children will come away turned on to farming and inspired by what rural New Zealand has to offer."
Depending on the farms, visitors can see activities such as cows being milked, crops harvested, sheep shorn, and stock worked.
Other activities will also be provided for children.
The Southland open day is on the Lindsay farm on the Riverton-Wallacetown highway and in South Canterbury on the Talbot farm on Taiko Rd.
The North Otago farm open day has been delayed until later this year because it coincided with the North Otago A and P Show.
The farms will be open from 10am-3pm on Sunday.
