1. Ways of growing and selling food
differently
Year 7 (Margays and Lions)
2012
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2. Keelham Farm Shop
Keelham farm shop is more than just another
shop selling farm products. Keelham have
been farming for over three generations and
they support over 250 local producers and
farmers from Yorkshire. Keelham believe that
this helps strengthen the local economy,
conserve our local countryside and offer the
freshest, tastiest food. All of the produce is
organic.
By Lucas
3. Keelham make a difference to the community.
They provide jobs for local people, help with
community work, offer time to help local charities
with fund raising and education focusing on
schemes associated with young people, healthy
eating and the environment.
They make fresh food affordable to everyone with
the veg. exchange scheme and provide a weekly
shopper hopper which picks up people in the local
communities and taking them to Keelham. They
offer lots of fun and educational events to raise
awareness of organic farming.
By Lucas
5. Ivy Farm Liverton Hill
• Kent was once known as the Garden of England unfortunately
a lot of the farming land has been lost to development .
• Ivy farm is a fruit farming business which grows strawberries,
apples and pears. The farm covers 170 hectares of Kent land.
The farmer has recently planted a new apple orchard and built
a reservoir to water them.
By Aidan
6. The project
• The farmer is planning on
building a huge eco house next
to the orchard. He is also
planning on building an
anaerobic digester which will
power the house.
The digester will take fruit waste
from the orchard and their
cardboard and paper recycling.
It will convert this into biogas which
will provide power and heat for
the house and compost to be laid
back on the orchard as compost
that will act as a fertiliser.
By Aidan
8. This is the farm we went to buy raw milk from a few years back. We talked to the farm owner Ann and
found out some history on the farm.
The farm was started by her mother in 1950 with a herd of Jersey cows for dairy farming. Over time it
became a mixed farm later with more cows, pigs, ponies, ducks and arable crops of wheat and barley.
The main income though came from the dairy cows, where they sold the milk to a large dairy who
processed it and distributed it by milkmen and supermarkets.
Unfortunately Ann’s mother died young when Ann was just a teenager and so she had to sell most of
her stock but kept 7 dairy cows. Ann then started to sell unpasteurised cream from her farm stall. It
was very successful and she soon added raw milk for sale.
They were very successful with their unpasteurised products and proudly won the gold medal in 2010
at the Great Taste Awards.
Ann is very aware of the environment and keeps her farm as clean from chemicals as possible and
safe for her animals.
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9. Now that Ann and her husband are getting older, they made the tough decision to stop their dairy
herd as so much work is involved in milking the cows 7 days a week, 365 days a year and
decided to raise beef instead.
They have a herd of Aberdeen Angus Beef, that they bred and rear on the farm. All the calves
stay with their mothers.
The animals are fed a natural diet spending the summer grazing the grass around the farm and in
winter they are in the straw bedded yards, fed on the grass made into hay from the farm as well.
I think that Ann and her family have showed how to keep a farm through lots of changes and still
be aware of the environment and the needs of her herds.
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10. All about where Jamie lives and the good
things that are being done there
• Local farmers grow sugar beet as a winter crop. The sugar beet is not
sent for sugar production but sent to a factory to be refined into bio-fuel.
There is a large production factory that supplies local authorities and
business that use vehicles for low emissions in city centres.
• Beccles farmers market is a monthly market held at a hanger on a
heliport that sells only locally produced goods. These range from beef
pork and lamb products to locally produced beer. Farmers that grow
veg provide seasonal varieties. The apple farmer puts apples in storage
so that he can provide fruit during the winter months.
• Venison and rabbit are provided by farmers for the public to enjoy.
Somerleyton estate is over run with rabbits and monkjack deer which
can be shot all the year round. Other deer and wild fowl are only shot in
a certain season. I LOVE PIGEON PIE!!!!!!!!!
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11. All about where Jamie lives and the
good things that are being done there
• In the summer our fields are full of wheat or
rapeseed. Some of these are grown to an
organic level. Some fields have had to be left
fallow. This has allowed the soil to recover
and have man made products disintegrate.
• A lot of farms sell there products from there
own farms or leave crops bagged up and
rely on the honesty of the public to put the
money in the tin.
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12. Local Farming On The Isle Of Wight
By Lowan
Farmer Jacks is a farm shop located in Arreton Old Village which is almost in the middle
of the Isle of Wight. It was started by a group of Island farmers with a genuine passion
and love for good food. They take pride in all that they sell and aim to provide the very
best in quality and variety of fresh local Isle of Wight produce, that being fruit,
vegetables and local meat. This brings Island farmers and food producers together and
encourages locals to buy locally produced food and support the local farmers. 12
13. By Lowan
Farmer Jacks organise various events throughout
the year for locals and visitors to get involved in,
once again supporting local farmers and
producers and encouraging community fun.
These include pumpkin growing competitions, a
giant maize maze to wander through or get lost
in, taster evenings, recipes, a sweetcorn fair,
Easter egg hunts and decorating competitions.
Farmer Jack’s is a place that supports all farming
on the Isle of Wight and gets the community13
involved.
14. Farms Make things better by Sîoned
• WORZALS FARM SHOP/Coffee SHOP/Garden
Centre
• The owners are farmers, they were not making sufficient money
from their farm, so three years ago they decided to diversify.
• It took a long time to get the business established, as they had to
clear land and build the Farm Shop, Coffee Shop and Garden
Centre.
• The owners wanted to provide fresh quality products from the
locality, they wanted to provide a better service for the local
community as their are few facilities due to the rural location.
• They also grow Pumpkins, Courgettes and Vegetables to supply
to local outlets, but use this produce in the farm shop and their
coffee shop.
• The garden centre is doing so well they are expanding.
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15. WORZALS
• They sell a variety of food, Meat, Fresh Vegetables, Fruit
• They also sell a range of dairy produce and some really
nice sweets .
• They provide lots of organic produce and speciality foods.
• They support green energy and are looking at wind
turbines, solar panels as the owner wants to respect the
planet.
• The owner told me that you have to look at what people
need and want, he feels some farmers wont change and
that they will get left behind in a changing market, that
doesn't stand still.
• My family uses Worzals a lot and we love their produce.
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17. • I often go with my mum to shop in the Hall Farm shop that is only 5 minutes from
us. We often see the owners in the shop , John and Stella Barrie. Most items in the
shop are from either their farm or are locally produced .
• I asked about how Hall Farm started and John said it has been in his family since
1920. I also did some research on it for this project.
• It is a working mixed farm with livestock of lambs, pigs, chickens and cows. They
also grow about 6 acres of potatoes that they also sell in the shop along with a
variety of herbs and plants. Their chickens are also free range and the eggs are sold
in the shop as well.
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The lambs and cows are looked after by John and his sons and are butchered by
the local butchers and come back to the farm to be sold. This means very few food
miles are involved with this farm.
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18. • They have now won in 2011 the “Best Farm Shop” award by the Suffolk Food and Drink
Awards in 2008 and again in 2011 based on their own produce and the quality of the other
items offered in their farm shop
• In 2010 they grew even bigger and opened their own café that cooks their meat and
vegetables and this has won them the “Best Informal Venue” in 2009. I especially like this
café as they are always kind to Brendan and me and give us extra cake and drinks!
• I think that they have shown that whilst farming and environmental procedures have
progressed so have they to met these changes and be successful too.
Farm Shop
Inside the Farm Shop
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19. In and around Verona, there are five farmer’s
markets, they open once a week.
For example, one of them sells:
Wines and vinegars, pasta, flour, different kind
of jams, vegetables, cheeses and fresh meat
and salames.
By Abigail
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20. There are quiet a lot of cherry orchards in Negrar.
When they are ready to be harvested the different
farmers take the cherries to a fruit depot, just
outside the center of the village.
There are also a lot of grape vines in my village, it is a
wine region called Valpolicella.
Recently some of the local cherry farmers have been
digging up their cherry trees and they’ve been
planting grape vines to replace them.
They’ve been making these changes because they can
make more money making wine.
Some of the vinyards here are using organic farming
methods, without synthetic chemicals or GMO’s, for
example, one is called VINO BIO, but the company is
called Mont’Albano; and another one that is called
Cantina Valpolicella Negrar.
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By Abigail
22. Pasture House Farm
Pasture house farm has a different idea to being a dairy farm instead of
milking cows for milk they use goats for milking they sell the goat milk
to dalamere dairy that makes the goat milk drinkable
There are 750 goats that are all mature and they have a few baby goats
that have to meture and they have 8 billy goats all the baby goats are
waiting to mature so they can be added to the milking group
The farm has 197 acres of land to fit all of his animals on. He has 750+
goats and his small group of pedigree red poll cattle
There land is split into 3 parts
But not only do they milk goats they use
49 of there acres on growing winter
wheat that is sown in the autumn and
harvested in the summer
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23. There animal farming
All of their goats live indoors and there cattle live outside in
one of there fields with long grass. All the goats have straw
and bedding and a warm place to sleep. all the buildings have
been adapted for the goats to live in and sleep in there is one
room that has big doors that just let air in there is also a
room for the tractors and a room for selling the straw and
also a room for milking the goats. The red poll cattle are
chestnut brown and don’t have any horns.
By Angell
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25. By Callum
Church farm is a mixed, high well fair, ecological and low carbon food and farming enterprise.
A place for wildlife, beauty, diversity, community and people.
The Farm has:
New orchard of 8 acres, 130 varieties of fruit: apples, gages, plums, cherries, quince, medlar, pears,
damsons, mulberries and more...
Vicarage Field: 2 acre soft fruit enclosure, a little bit of ‘every berry’
60 Black Welsh Mountain & 60 Lleyn sheep & rams
30 Red Poll cattle & bull plus followers
20 British Lop & 12 Berkshire breeding sows plus boars
400 Light Sussex, Cuckoo Maran, Black Rock, Rhode Island and White Leghorn Laying hens
300 Poulet Anglais outdoor reared poultry
300 Norfolk Black & British White turkeys
100 Embden geese, 100 Aylesbury ducks
3 Bee hives & Apiary Garden
20 acres of new woods in-filled with wild cherry and hazel
2 acre walnut orchard
4 acres of wild bird seeds and pollen/nectar mix
30 acres of woods: 3 acres of ancient hornbeam coppice, 7 acres of established 60 year old woodland and 20
acres of mixed, mainly hardwoods, planted over the past 10 years
2 acres of rough nesting ground amongst a line of old clay pits
2 ponds established in 1996, two more flood ponds and a new pond in the vegetable gardens
Beards Oak Kitchen Gardens: 8 acres growing over 200 varieties of vegetables and herbs
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26. By Callum
In 1988 Church Farm was “set-aside” and we established events company MotivAction. Twenty
years later we started a new farm that produces food directly for people, provides social care,
education and greener events. It is based on a systems approach, synergy and economies of
scope, aiming for wildlife, beauty, diversity, high welfare and low carbon and producing a
diverse
seasonal diet.
It is a mixed farm. A hundred varieties of vegetables and herbs are grown here, there are new
orchards, ancient woodland, new plantations, acres of soft fruit and a forest garden. All the
meat is from rare breeds and prepared on site. We host groups of less than 10 to more than
100 people using the meeting room, the café, fields, cabins and woods. Across the road from us
is also the 17th century Jolly Waggoner Inn where you can enjoy farm feasts and local ale.
Everything grown here is taken from the field to the fork, all the primary ingredients that make
up your menu come from the farm, water is from our spring and electricity is supplied by Green
Energy.
An event with us won’t cost the earth, it will enrich it. Your event will be greener, greater value
and run by professionals. By booking events here our customers boost the local economy,
create meaningful jobs, conserve the green and pleasant land and help re-establish local
agriculture and local food. Do come and visit us to discuss your special event, conferences,
meetings, team-build, learning experiences, volunteering projects, family festivals, parties and
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celebrations.
27. The box scheme allows you to enjoy Church
Farm fresh produce in the way that best suits
By Callum you.
Each farm box is tailored by you and can
contain all or a selection of Church Farm high
welfare meat, the best tasting varieties
of vegetables, free range orchard eggs,
fresh fruit, bread handmade by the baker as
well as organic cheese, milk, and butter. Picked,
packed and available for FREE home delivery or
collection.
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28. Farms make things better by Darnell
• In my local area there have been some changes in Hackney city farm.
They have come up with a new scheme that supports the local public
and helps the environment. They are growing and planting new natural
recourses which are helping us with our everyday life style. They are
allowing us to come to the farm and collect a box full of vegetables!
• Another good point is that my uncle who doesn’t live to far from me has
an allotment (a big one) at the back of his garden. He picks his own
fruits and vegetables from there and he rents a part of it for his self and
his family!
• I also have a big market write near my house, it sells allot of fruit and
vegetables, over stuff as well mainly fruit and vegetables, but I’m not
quite sure where it comes from! But I do have allot of markets and they
all sell allot of fruit and vegetables!
• I also have another farm near my house and that’s called Kentish town
city farm and I know that that farm sells fresh vegetables and fruits that
have been grown from the farm and been cleaned ! (Fresh)!!
The area I live in just loves farms
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