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How does food get from farm to plate? - Summary
Food takes a journey before it reaches our homes. In this KS1 video from The Regenerators, Change Champs Cian and Skylar visit a local farm to discover how food is grown, produced and sold. Along the way, they learn about crops, livestock and how food travels from the farm to people's plates.
In this video, students will learn:
- Where some of our food comes from.
- What crops and livestock are.
- How food is grown and harvested on a farm.
- How eggs are produced and collected.
- How food moves from farms to shops and customers.
Classroom video - Food
Let's visit a farm
The Change Champs are a team of children who like to learn about the world around them. In each video, the Change Champs meet an expert who sets them an exciting challenge.
Join Cian and Skylar as they head to their local farm to learn about how our food gets from the fields to our plates.
Skylar: Hello, I'm Skylar.
Cian: And I'm Cian, we are change champs.
(GENTLE MUSIC)
Skylar: We have come to a farm in Cowbridge Wales to meet Angharad.
Cian: The farm also has a farm shop and kitchen which sells all the things they make.
Angharad: Hi, kids. I'm so glad you came to see us here today. I've got so much to show you.
Skylar: We are used to seeing all of the food we buy in supermarkets.
Cian: But today we want to find out from Angharad about where our food comes from.
Angharad: We get really excited about the journey our food takes, from the fields out here to the food on our plates.
Skylar: We are going with Angharad to look around the farm and find out more about it.
Angharad: There's lots of land on this farm, where they grow lots of crops. And there's also some buildings where the animals live and there's some houses and an office and a farm shop.
Skylar: What animals do you have?
Angharad: Well, there's lots of different livestock here. So livestock are; cows, sheep and pigs, and there's also some chickens and some bees.
Cian: We are excited to find out what food is grown here too.
Skylar And Cian: Wow!
Angharad: Now these are pumpkins and soon they'll be ready to be harvested and they'll be picked and washed and taken to the farm shop. Shall we go and pick up some?
Skylar and Cian: Yes.
Angharad: Can you see one? What colour is it?
Oh here's one.
Skylar: I've got a pumpkin.
Angharad: Thank you.
So, do you know what this?
Cian: A chicken barn.
Angharad: That's right. And do you know what hens give us?
Cian: Eggs.
Angharad: Exactly, so these eggs are free range, which means the hens have lots of space to move around. We have lots of hens, so thousands of eggs are collected every day. Shall we go and see the eggs being sorted?
We've turned off the belt. So we're going to pick six lovely eggs to go back to the shop. Do you want to choose one?
Cian: Mhhm
Now that we have our pumpkin and eggs, we are gonna drop them back to the farm shop.
Skylar: The farm shop is so exciting. They have got honey from the bees and now they have our eggs and pumpkin to sell too.
Cian: Which will sell all this lovely food to the people that live nearby.
Should we take a bite?
(CRUNCHING INTO AN APPLE)
Quick facts about farms
- Farms grow crops such as pumpkins that are harvested before being sold.
- Livestock includes animals such as cows, sheep and pigs.
- Hens lay eggs that can be collected and sold to customers.
- Free-range hens have space to move around.
- Farm shops can sell food produced on the farm, including fruit, vegetables, eggs and honey.
Let's discuss: Which foods do you think start their journey on a farm, and what steps do they take before reaching your home?
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