Our group 2 students from Holsworthy Community College have been making excellent progress in their Care farming sessions.
Over the last 3 weeks, group 2 Care Farmers have had a variety of tasks and visits to enrich their sessions.
Their usual jobs start with moving and cleaning out the chickens, followed by calf rearing duties. We have then planted a vegetable patch with onions, got some lettuce seeds sown and looking after the pepper, courgette, tomato and cucumber plants in the poly tunnel.
We have also had a visit from Andy, a Penbode Vet who came and talked to the students about Calf health, with a demonstration in weighing, what to look for in a health/poorly calf, the difference between the 4 stomachs, how to talk a calf's temperature and what it should be and also listening to the calf's chest/lungs/throat for any signs of illness.
We have also taken the students for a visit to Kivells Market, Holsworthy, where we saw the last of the store and dairy cattle being sold. We then had a tour to the sheep section where the students we able to hold a young lamb. This was something they loved ! We met and talked to David Kivell and James Morrish took our photo for the market report.
Our next session will be planting peas/runner beans in the vegetable patch and clearing the grass from the guards of a recently established woodland area.