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Oxbow Farm is my favourite place for field trips. The guides are wonderfully entertaining and keep the kids motivated with songs, movement, challenges and a fast paced, hands-on journey through the farm.

The children learn about the farm plants and have an opportunity to investigate, pick and taste everything, whilst being shown respect for the plants and their environment.

They eat leafy plants being careful not to stand on the plants.

picking Kale leaves — Snap off a whole Kale leaf and eat it. “It tastes like broccoli”

They eat seeds, learning about where the seeds come from, how they are spread and dried out in the greenhouse.

seeds drying in the greenhouse — The children collected bean pods in the garden, split the pods and brought the seeds to dry in the greenhouse

They eat stems. We found tiny celery sticks to try.

They eat flowers. We ate small yellow flowers that tasted like licquorice.

They eat fruit. We ate juicy apples from the tree and found the seeds inside them.

They eat roots. We pulled salad turnips and carrots from the ground, washed them and ate them.

tasting a salad turnip. “It tastes a bit spicy”

The children found a caterpillar

Found out that runner bean leaves stick to you

and even played hide and seek in the rhubarb

And everyone had a juicy pumpkin to take home.

We used paint sticks to colour the coffee filters.

I want to use green mummy.

We looked at pictures of daffodils, there were lots of different shapes and colours. We decided that both coffee filters did not need to be the same colour.

We had an idea to use the children’s bath colours to stain the coffee filters. We dropped water on them. ‘Look it’s fizzing’. NB. protect surfaces if using bath colours .