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Care farming group 2 update

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.

 

 

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