Festive Farming Fun!

This week, Year 1 and Year 2 joined a live online festive farming session with the NFU. We met four amazing farmers who taught us all about their work – and we learnt so many fascinating facts!

Farmer Jon – Christmas Tree Farmer

Farmer Jon showed us how Christmas trees grow from tiny seeds into the big, beautiful trees we decorate.
Some of his trees had been growing for 22 years!
We discovered that each gap between the branches shows a year’s worth of growth.

Farmer Coco – Sheep Farmer

Farmer Coco explained the important jobs she does to keep her sheep happy and healthy.
She checks the fencing, looks closely at the sheep, and makes sure they have food and water.
Sheep have woolly coats to keep them warm in winter, but in summer they are sheared to stay cool.

Farmer James – Sprout Farmer

Farmer James starts his sprouts in a greenhouse and plants them outside after about 14 weeks.
He plants around 13,000 sprouts per acre – that’s a lot of sprouts!
He has to protect them from caterpillars and slugs.
After almost a year, a big machine operated by two people harvests the sprouts. The leftover stalks are eaten by cows – nothing goes to waste!

Farmer Lucy – Camel & Reindeer Farmer

Farmer Lucy told us that camels with one hump have thin coats for hot places, while camels with two humps have thick coats for cold places.
Camel milk is full of vitamin C!
She also looks after 21 reindeer. We learnt that both male and female reindeer grow antlers, which fall off and regrow every year.
Baby reindeer can move quickly and grow very fast.

We loved our festive farming session and learnt so much about the amazing work farmers do. A big thank you to Farmer Jon, Farmer Coco, Farmer James, and Farmer Lucy for sharing their knowledge with us!

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