Description

Farms for City Children is a charity founded by Michael and Clare Morpurgo in 1976, that gives school children the chance to become an integral part of one of our three working farms: Nethercott in Devon, Lower Treginnis in Pembrokeshire and Wick Court, Gloucestershire, for a whole week.

During their week-long stay, the children and their teachers live and work at the farms, explore the countryside and find out where good food comes from. They also discover self-confidence as they conquer fears, grow in self-belief as they overcome challenges as part of hard working teams, develop new friendships, create stories and poems filled with the vibrant sounds and language of the rural environment and learn to see a bigger, brighter future than they might realise exists beyond their crowded city horizons. Today, Farms for City Children welcomes 3,000 children per year for a week-long stay on our farms.

Our team at Nethercott is led by our Farm School Manager Katy –an experienced former primary school teacher, who will be your host for the week. Katy and her team will guide the children through all farming activities and will give you all the information and equipment you need to keep your children safe and well throughout the visit.

Nethercott House is in a stunning rural environment close to Dartmoor National Park. Deep in Devonshire farming country, Nethercott is an imposing Victorian manor house with wide sweeping lawns and gnarled old oak trees lining the steeply-banked walkways and hedgerows that lead down to the river Torridge.

Maximum occupancy - 39 children, 5 adults
Indicative Farming activities include:
Maximum occupancy – 36 children, 5 adults
Indicative farming activities include:
• Feeding and watering poultry and ducks
• Grooming and mucking out horses, ponies and donkeys
• Commercial beef and sheep farming – feeding cattle, checking livestock health, herding sheep
• Kitchen garden – sowing, potting, harvesting, tasting fruits and vegetables
• Creamery – a special food-preparation room allows children to experience cheese and yogurt making
• Cooking – preparing nutritious meals from the produce harvested on the farms
• Countryside walks through fields and alongside the trout stream
• Forest school – unstructured and self-led play, including making charcoal, learning to light fires, whittling wood, making dens and getting creative with willow
• Village walk to Iddesleigh, the historic home of Michael Morpurgo’s Joey (War Horse)

For further information please see our brochure:

https://issuu.com/farmsforcitychildren9/docs/farms_for_city_children_-_school_brochure_-_v19.9?fr=sMGJkNzQ0NTgxMA

We hope to see you and your class down on the farm very soon.

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