During 2004 we created a classroom
out of an old cow byre. This has proved very popular with schools
around the area that have arranged school trips to Over Farm.
Due to the diversity of the farm it is almost always possible to tailor
a visit to suit the current curriculum.
At the farm are very fortunate to have an enthusiastic teacher who
works with the children and helps them understand the ways that food
is produced. We try to demonstrate how the farm not only produces
food efficiently, but also does so in a way that benefits the environment.
Visits usually commence with a classroom session, followed by a learning
walk around the vegetable fields, chickens and ostriches.
Lunch is followed by a meeting with the farmer and an "Ask the
farmer" question and answer session.
Following this the students board the secure farm trailer and are
taken around the farm before being dropped off by the Farm Market
to see where the produce is taken to be sold.
The “living pizza” helps children to quickly see many
different crops in an interesting way. It is designed to enable children
to walk around and enables them to pick, feel and smell some of the
crops that go into a food they are very familiar with... a Pizza.
We also offer groups or schools the opportunity to then make a pizza
themselves, in our specially created pizza kitchen. The pizzas are
cooked in a traditional wood fired oven.
There is also then an opportunity to see and pet the animals near
the market, before loading on the bus to go home.
For more information please call our teacher Mo Braham on: 01531 820808
or
email her at davidandmo.topp@ukgateway.net
