Most kids nowadays have absolutely no idea where their food comes from, and are probably unaware that the eggs they’re dipping their soldiers in each morning actually come from chickens.
The Tesco Eat Happy Project is now giving children from primary schools all over the UK the opportunity to see how their food makes it from Farm to Fork.
On the 28th March 2014, 16 children from North Scarle Primary School, visited the Happy Egg farm in Beckingham.
The new initiative aims to teach kids where their food is coming from and how to have a happy relationship with the food they are eating each day.
Sharon Russell-Webster visited the farm with the children and says that they absolutely loved the trip:
“They learnt about the environment the chickens were kept in and how they had to have access to the land…they even learnt about the different parts of the egg.”
Jean-Paul Michelsky, the trail leader from the Happy Egg farm, thinks that the initiative is a fantastic idea, he says:
“There is a real lack of education out there as to how food is produced. So capturing kids at this age when they are so open to suggestion will give them an idea as to how their food is produced helping them to make informed purchases.”
Find out more about the Tesco Eat Happy Project and sign your school up, here.
