Lesson Ideas for Teachers

FARMVENTION National STEM Competition

Create an invention, innovation or idea to help British farmers continue to care for the environment and become Climate Super Heroes. This year’s Farmvention* (when farming meets invention) challenge is all about the problems that climate change creates for British farmers and how they are fighting it to become Climate … Read more

Learn about where Fruit and Vegetables come from

Watch the video below to see potatoes being planted at Washingpool Farm in Bridport. The ground is first ploughed, harrowed and rolled before the potatoes are planted. It typically takes about 10 weeks after planting for most potato varieties to produce tubers large enough to eat. Download the activity Sheet: … Read more

Learn about silage

Watch the two videos below: Silage is preserved grass. Farmers make silage in the Spring to feed their animals in the Autumn and Winter when there isn’t much grass growing in the fields and the quality is poor.  There are two methods of making silage Method 1 The  grass is … Read more

Learn about Sheep

Watch the video below to see a lamb (one of twins) being born on Wyld Meadow Farm in Bridport Dorset in April 2020. Once the lamb has been cleaned by its mother it is important that it gets up on its feet quickly and latches to the ewe’s teat to get the colostrum (first milk) which is packed with nutrients and antibodies.

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