Educational Access Visits

We have funding from our Countryside Stewardship Award to provide free farm visits to school groups or home-education groups.

We offer visits that are 2 hours long and can take up to 30 students from a school or 10 children as a home-education group. We have a minimum size of 5.

Our visits will teach your students about farming, food and conservation and can include other elements of the school curriculum at the same time. The sessions are tailored to the age group attending and your needs.

We are able to provide educational visits relating farming to conservation and food production. We can include hands-on activities with our sheep, hens and bees in these sessions. We can cover topics such as:

Why farming matters
Where our food comes from
Animal health care, including digestive systems
Water and soil management
Trees and hedgerows, including tree ID and hedgerow management
Biodiversity and conservation

In addition to these topics, we can incorporate elements linking to different parts of the school curriculum. The table below gives you an idea of some of the activities we can include.

Curriculum	Activity link
Geography	Develop fieldwork skills, collecting and recording evidence. Identify our soil type and health, and learn about how to improve our soil. Use different sampling techniques to identify and record the different plants in our fields, and learn about how we are increasing the diversity of plants in our fields.
Science	Life processes on the farm, food chains, tree, bird and plant identification Protection of living things and the environment Water cycle, importance of plants to prevent flooding, water filtration.
Food technology	Learn about where our food comes from. Make butter from milk and bread from wheat grains, and cook over a camp fire.
Environment	Learn how to compost and find out about how we manage manure on our farm. Learn about the importance of biodiversity and how we are improving it on our farm.
English	Look at our farm diary and write their own farmer’s diary. Reading, and writing animal stories and poems.
Design and technology	Learn about sheep fleece and its uses, and make an item to take home. Learn about the uses of different trees, and make an item to take home.