1. Fowlescombe Farm Trail A flexible option that can be whatever you want it to be! How about mixing some of our other activities such as a habitat walk around the estate with a little medieval history to spice it up!
2. Where Does Our Food Come From? Trace the journey food makes from the plough to the plate. Find out how a healthy landscape can mean healthy food and also healthy people. Explore our farm, learn about sustainable food production, calculate the food miles your lunch has travelled and work out who eats who in the food chain.
3. The Great Bug Hunt A combination of wildflower meadows, leafy woodlands and ancient ruins means that Fowlescombe is home to lots of different creepy-crawlies. From slithering snails to darting dragonflies, get to see bugs close up in their natural habitats - maybe even play a bit of Bug Hunt Bingo! This activity also considers the link between invertebrate populations and careful farming.
4. Meet the Animals Find out more about life on the farm by meeting some of our prize-winning cattle and sheep. A rare opportunity to walk a sheep and give a cow a pat! This activity links in well with considering where food comes from and also animal welfare and human responsibilities.
5. Freshwater Fishing Although the farm's ponds and streams are home to a number of fish, this activity focuses on freshwater invertebrates. A quick dip with a net yields a good selection of leeches, shrimps and other wriggly creatures. This activity considers the link between farming and water pollution, as well as looking at feeding relationships.
6. Teddy Bears' Picnic If you go down to the woods today. you'll get a chance for younger children to enjoy time out in the woods with their teddy bears and a picnic. Combine with bug hunting or some woodland art for a great trip out.
7. Succession Stroll Follow one of the streams that flow through the estate and see how the plant and animal life changes as the stream becomes bigger and faster. Links in well with learning about the conditions plants need to grow successfully and how organisms are found in different habitats.
8. Art and ceramics focused workshop, using material from the farm and clay by All Fired Up in Devon

1. Farming, Food and Futures Fowlescombe provides a great opportunity to consider: . Modern food production . The sustainability of agriculture . Citizenship - responsibilities and rights . Globalisation - economics and trade
2. Grassland Comparison The farm contains a range of different grasslands. Sward and invertebrate diversity could be investigated in relation to: . Improved versus semi-natural and unimproved grassland . Permanent versus temporary grassland . Grazing method and animals used
3. Hydrology Study Fowlescombe has a large number of different land uses including woodland, pasture and arable. It is possible to compare infiltration rates, soil densities and soil pH for example on varying land uses. In addition, the steep-sided combe that the farm occupies provides a good study site for looking at how soil moisture conditions change down slope.
4. Hedgerow / Microclimate Investigation There are literally miles of hedgerows on the farm - old, new, laid, stone-faced banks, earth banks - offering many opportunities for study. It is particularly interesting to investigate the impact the hedgerow has on the microclimate of the adjacent field.
5. Woodland Comparison The estate possesses numerous wooded areas, of which Kennel Quarry and Coombe Wood are the oldest and largest. These two woods are on opposite sides of a combe, providing a good basis for a study comparing the aspect of the two slopes and the variations associated with this. Alternatively the older woods can be compared with more recently planted areas on the estate.
6. Land-use Mapping As mentioned previously, the estate has a wide variety of land uses and is well suited to the exercise of land-use mapping. It is also possible to use older maps to consider how the farm has changed within the context of agricultural history.
7. Art and ceramics focused workshop, using material from the farm and clay by All Fired Up in Devon

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