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.
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Awarded by the Council for Learning Outside of the Classroom, this Quality Badge shows we offer young people high quality learning experiences within a safe environment. |
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Over Farm is a member of Farm and Countryside Education (FACE), the leading charity providing food, farming and countryside education for children aged 2-19. |
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 07970 619850 or email her at mo.braham@btinternet.com
