The Year of Food and Farming

The Year of Food and Farming aims to reconnect children and young people with the food that they eat and to promote healthy living by giving young people direct experience of countryside, farming and food.

The Year will run from September 2007 to July 2008. During the course of the Year, children will have the opportunity to:

follow the story from 'field to fork'
explore the importance of food
make informed decisions about food and healthy nutrition
watch what happens on a real-life farm
experience what the countryside can offer
learn more about environmental issues linked to food and the countryside.

Objectives of the Year of Food and Farming

• To improve the understanding of young people, their parents and teachers, of the food chain and the role played by farming.
• To develop curriculum materials and projects on food and farming which can be used in schools both during and beyond the Year.
• To increase links between schools, farmers and food producers, which will be sustainable well beyond the Year.
• To raise awareness of the contribution food can make to a healthy lifestyle, and within this increase the understanding amongst young people of what constitutes a healthy and balanced diet.
• To raise awareness of the career opportunities in the food and farming industries.
• To increase understanding of the importance of the countryside and environmental issues related to food and farming.

Our role in the Year of Food and Farming

We will be playing our part by offering help and resources to make the year more successful. In particular we will be supplying farming photographs for use in school packs and adding hundreds of high resolution farming pictures to our image library. These will be free for use by schools and their pupils. More information >> Year of food and farming - activities

In addition we will continue to provide simple and clear chronological illustration of what is happening and why and at the end of the Year of Food and Farming, all of our resources will remain available 24 hours a day. Of particular relevance are:

Farming Pictures
Field to Fridge
The Four Seasons

Teachers may download our .pdf factsheet which details how the site can be best used; click here >> food and farming educational resources.

For more information and a complete rundown of all the activities from the Year's website; click here >> the Year of Food and Farming

 

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