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Agri Aware in conjunction with Bord Bia hosted the Bloom Farmyard at this year’s Bloom Festival. On Thursday & Friday we hosted over 900 primary school students from 30 different schools across the country. The schools were given a tour of the farmyard and engaged with our farmers Johnny & Kalyn, learning about the pigs, sheep and cows. They even got to see some sheep shearing and a dairy cow being milked! Bord Bia also played host to our students in the 7-A-Day Polytunnel, where they took part in workshops about healthy eating and the importance of getting in your 7-a-day fruit and vegetables. The whole Incredible Edibles garden was planted in the Polytunnel for the classes to see.
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Our Agri Aware team members took the stage in the 7-a-day polytunnel over the weekend to teach children about the requirements for seed germination – heat, air and water. Our seed necklaces were very popular with lots of the public gone home with the anticipation of growing some beetroot in their gardens!
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We boogied on down to the Budding Bloomers area to hold our Butter Discos, where we shook up some cream to make butter. We encouraged the children to come see where their milk comes from at the Milking Demonstration down on the Farmyard. We held a number of sheep shearing demonstrations each day, which proved very popular with the general public, with great excitement circulating around our Rare Breed Galway Ewe, which we sheared on Saturday. |
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