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Children learn the importance of bees and worms

Children learn the importance of bees and worms

Last week, The Community Farm's learning team provided an educational experience for an incredible 1,440 children from over 40 primary schools around Bristol.

This was all part of the Bristol Food Connections festival, which The Community Farm has been participating in.

The Farm's learning team spent the week running the Farming and Education tent alongside Food For Life Partnership, the Soil Association’s education team and beekeepers from across Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

Children learned about the importance of worms and bees in maintaining a healthy and balanced eco-system and successfully producing the food we eat.

In just half an hour the children enjoyed fun, interactive games, taking on the role of bees in pollinating flowers; they learned what soil is made up of, examined different types of soil for worms, met beekeepers and had the chance to take a close look at an observation hive and a wormery.

By the end of the workshop the children were challenged by our brilliant storyteller, Martin Maudsley, to think of some food that hadn’t been made by the help of bees or worms. The closest they came was a tin of sardines. However, one child pointed out that the sardines would have been caught by a fisherman... with a worm on the end of his line!

Well done to all participant schools.

We're looking forward to welcoming some of these schools to The Community Farm in the next few months so they can explore where their food comes from.

Thanks to the Soil Association and BBC for giving us the opportunity to be part of this fantastic event!

 

10 top bee facts!

1. There are about 20,000 different species of bee in the world.

2. Honey bees are social insects - they live and work together in a colony.

3. A bee colony has one Queen, hundreds of Drones and thousands of Workers.

4. Honey bees fly up to 15 mph and beat their wings 12,000 beats per minute.

5. Solitary bees are called carpenter, plasterer, leaf-cutting, burrowing, or mason bees according to how they construct nests for their young.

6. Bees make honey to feed their young during the winter.

7. The bumblebee's buzz is produced by vibrating wing muscles.

8. Honey never goes rotten, a jar of 2000 year old honey in an Egyptian tomb was still found to be edible.

9. Bumble bees can travel up to 8 miles to find nectar.

10. 70% of our food is pollinated by bees.

 

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