Food and farming
Its the year of food and farming in 2008, helping children find out about where their food comes from and how farming shapes the landscape.
National Parks Week 2008 - your countryside on a plate, has loads of food and farming events, quirky food facts and local recipes from around the National Parks to try.
Farming case study - 5,000 years of farming on Dartmoor
Dartmoor looks like a wild countryside area, with upland moors and rocky tors and wild ponies roaming free. But this wild area has been shaped by farmers for over 5,000 years. Today, over 90% of the land is used in farming, and the people that live in Dartmoor National Park depend on farming just as much as the wildlife. But moorland farming is under threat, so Dartmoor National Park Authority and other organisations are trying to help farmers so that they can shape the moorland for the next 20 years.
- Farming in Dartmoor - shows how farming from prehistoric time to today has shaped Dartmoor, its wildlife and its communities.
- Farming on Dartmoor Exhibition - this online version of the exhibition shows the farming year, and how farming helps care for the environment and produces great local produce
- A year on the farm - gives children the chance to run a virtual farm for a year, can they feed the animals, sheer the sheep, fertilise the fields and watch out for dog walkers?!
- Dartmoor Vision - how multiple agencies have agreed on a vision for the moorland in 2030 and what they need to do to help farmers achieve it.
- Dartmoor Hill Farm Project - a project to help farmes with advice, grants and working together to share costs and knowledge.
