Farm School helps to inspire more than 1,200 children to connect with farming and the countryside

Farmers are helping schoolchildren to experience the joy of farming

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"The Farm School initiative allows our local children to experience the wonders of farming and farm life in reality – the smells, the noises, the animals and the scale of the machinery used."
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"The Farm School initiative allows our local children to experience the wonders of farming and farm life in reality – the smells, the noises, the animals and the scale of the machinery used."

Farmers have been giving children first-hand experience of how they farm and the nature conservation that goes alongside it. Farm School, a collaboration between the council, its tenant farmers, schools,...

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