{"id":23629,"date":"2023-02-22T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=23629"},"modified":"2023-02-22T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T15:30:00","slug":"from-farms-to-our-tables-%f0%9f%a5%95%f0%9f%a5%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/02\/22\/from-farms-to-our-tables-%f0%9f%a5%95%f0%9f%a5%94\/","title":{"rendered":"From farms to our tables \ud83e\udd55\ud83e\udd54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we set up our farm in the small world area. The children brushed the floor and made it all clean and tidy to start. They added artificial grass and blocks round it to make the fence so the animals couldn\u2019t escape onto the road. We added some wooden people to act as the farmer and the families who live and work on the farm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22142846\/40534288-640A-4A43-B4D8-B17856924343.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23631\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22142846\/40534288-640A-4A43-B4D8-B17856924343-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Then the animals came out to play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We had a chat about what we already know about farms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhat do you know about farms?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey have animals like cows and sheep, that eat grass\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy horse eats carrots\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFarms have vegetables\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy daddy \u00a0bought carrots from the shop I had them for dinner\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We explored the different vegetables, feeling and smelling them and peeled and chopped them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22144112\/C4E4632B-C3D5-45A3-BFA1-268610C71AE0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23632\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22144112\/C4E4632B-C3D5-45A3-BFA1-268610C71AE0-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22144117\/88D8200A-A484-47C4-9072-A4B4F1E6F45D.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23633\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22144117\/88D8200A-A484-47C4-9072-A4B4F1E6F45D-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBig potato, small potato\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I asked the children if they knew how the vegetables get from the farm to the shop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They seemed unsure so we watched a video called farm to fork.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22144838\/5474AC6C-5BFA-4FBA-A47A-FB4355045F69.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23634\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22144838\/5474AC6C-5BFA-4FBA-A47A-FB4355045F69-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After we watched the process of growing vegetables on the farm, then being transported to the shops before getting to our tables. The children used the vegetables they had peeled and chopped and \u201cplanted\u201d them in the soil. They are very keen to grow their own vegetables in the garden when the weather is a little warmer so we can use them for snack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/B5C58A5B-BF89-496F-A950-6446F81E78DF.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23638\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/B5C58A5B-BF89-496F-A950-6446F81E78DF-193x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The children used the carrots, celery, and cabbage to chop up for a lovely snack, they also added melon, blueberries and orange.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22150441\/BA7C2597-701E-4875-887E-1C6B50ED5871.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23636\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/02\/22150441\/BA7C2597-701E-4875-887E-1C6B50ED5871-300x283.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201csnack is very yummy today\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we set up our farm in the small world area. The children brushed the floor and made it all clean and tidy to start. They added artificial grass and blocks round it to make the fence so the animals couldn\u2019t escape onto the road. We added some wooden people to act as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/02\/22\/from-farms-to-our-tables-%f0%9f%a5%95%f0%9f%a5%94\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From farms to our tables \ud83e\udd55\ud83e\udd54<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,54,135,446419],"tags":[446699,446165,446702,445992,446612],"class_list":["post-23629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-news","category-science","category-snack","tag-finemotorskills","tag-curiosity","tag-health-and-well-being","tag-snack","tag-social-skills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629\/revisions\/23644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}