A Farm Walk at your Fingertips

Farms are great places for learning, but all too often schools struggle to find the time - and finance to - make a farm visit. Now every child can go field to field exploring the British countryside, seeing and hearing about the way food is grown – and all without even having to leave the classroom - on the LEAF Virtual Farm Walk.

The walk, on a website developed by for the farming charity LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) in consultation with children and teachers, farmers and countryside educationalists. Wherever on the farm the visitor decides to stop – shop, livestock, field, hedge, pond, office, wood or machine shed - there are farmers are on hand to explain what’s going on. There are lots of interactive opportunities to explore for more.

The LEAF Virtual Farm Walk is open and ready for visitors - whatever the weather so check it out at www.virtualfarmwalk.org

Natural England Farm Walk

Yesterday we hosted our first Natural England farm walk looking at the cover crops. There were over thirty people discussing the issues that they had had and their successes with developing wildlife areas for bees, birds, insects and the weather was with us on the day.

March continues like a lion

The weather has been pretty wild for our farm walks this Easter weekend. We have had to wrap up warm! and definitely not for elegance.

The recent rain has added to the water in the "Mormon" pond (see photo). It was in early March 1840 that the converts were baptised - must have been pretty cold if it was anything like the weather that we are currently experiencing!

Morris and Maggie the pest controllers also took a well-earned Easter break (see photo). They seem to like the chair by the computer the most for a quick power nap!