News From farm to fork for pupils
Swinefleet Primary School pupils learned all about where their food comes from last week with a visit to a local farm.
The Co-operative hosted an open day at its farm near Goole last Thursday to introduce parents, teachers and pupils to the 'From Farm to Fork' outdoor learning experience.
Swinefleet Primary was the first school to visit Adlingfleet Grange on the Co-operative Farms' Goole estate.
The farm is to start hosting regular visits from local primary schools and the open day was a chance for teachers and parent governors from other schools in the area to see what children will learn when they spend a day there.
The Co-operative's 'From Farm to Fork' scheme began three years ago at its farm in Leicestershire and aims to give children a better understanding of where their food comes from. Since then the project has expanded to other Co-operative farms across the country and the Marshland farm is the latest to get up and running. The Co-operative Group farms 4,000 acres there and crops that are grown include wheat, winter barley, oilseed rape, vining peas, potatoes and sugar beet.
Twenty children from the school spent part of the day seeing what happens on the farm. They looked at the wheat growing in the field and had the chance to plant some vegetable seeds of their own. They also saw machinery that is used on the farm, including a combine harvester and tractor.
They learned about how wheat is made into flour and then had the opportunity to see how this is used for food by cooking their own pizzas and learning about healthy eating.
Linda Crow, schools project leader at Goole, said: "We enjoyed welcoming local primary schoolchildren to the farm for the first time.
"We hope that now teachers and parents have seen how a visit to the farm can encourage children to become passionate about cooking with good quality ingredients, and gain an understanding of how food is grown, they will be keen to arrange trips to the farm in the future."
Published on 12th June 2008 in News.
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