Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Farm Trip for Health & Food Technology Pupils

To launch the new 'Contemporary Food Issues' unit of the National Health & Food Technology course, 40 HFT pupils in S4 visited Craigie's Farm out by South Queensferry last week.

We saw their free range hens and 'pick your own' eggs

We saw, and smelt, the pigs they are fattening up to sell for meat

We saw the jam kitchen where they turn soft fruit grown at the farm into jam they can sell in the farm shop - creating added value

We learnt about the complexities of growing strawberries commercially
and visited other polytunnels with fruit and vegetables.















Thanks to John the farmer and Karen from the Royal Highland Education Trust for having us to visit!