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00:00 It's a real hands on, get your hands dirty and learn from it.
00:06 Whether you're making a sausage, whether you're looking at a pig carcass, handling a chicken,
00:10 milking a cow, planting a seed, it is all really entertaining.
00:15 Fifteen hundred children from across Devon flock to West Point for Farmwise this week,
00:19 an annual event showing schools where our food comes from.
00:23 Set across the site of Devon County Show, Farmwise puts on show every part of the farmyard
00:27 and beyond, from calves to combines, honeybees to horticulture.
00:32 After a long time without trips, Farmwise gave children and teachers a welcome opportunity
00:36 to escape the classroom and get hands on with their learning.
00:40 Event chair Deborah Cunston-Spaker explains.
00:42 It's been going on almost a decade and it's growing year on year.
00:47 This year we've got fifteen hundred school children, so we're back to pre-pandemic levels
00:51 of school children coming.
00:52 They're all primary school age and at that age they just absorb information.
00:57 So it's absolutely fantastic.
00:59 They come in, they're all excited.
01:01 It's a day out from the classroom but they are learning so much while they're here.
01:04 I think these days so many people don't really appreciate that the food that they buy in
01:10 the supermarket is actually reared on the ground.
01:12 And it's bringing them back to nature and bringing them back to really the basics.
01:16 And also to educate them as to how many different roles there are in farming.
01:20 In the old days you and I probably thought a farmer just looked after his land and his
01:25 animals and that was it.
01:26 But now you've got so many other, the Met Office is important, there's so many other
01:30 industries that are important and really to show them what is involved.
01:35 I mean I think that if we didn't produce the food here we wouldn't have any industry left.
01:41 Because I mean we feed into the supermarkets and everything and we feed onto people's plates.