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Directed Activities for Schools
Wimpole Home Farm
Sowing, Growing, Harvest and Milling KS1 & 2
- Discussion of the Victorian farming-year with the aid of farm artefacts,
these are contrasted with modern machinery.
- The children hear about ploughing of fields and about protection and growing
of wheat, from sowing through to harvest and milling. Artefacts such as an
antique plough, a seed fiddle, flails and winnowing baskets are demonstrated
to the children.
- Modern equivalents of some of the artefacts are used today in many parts of
the world; where appropriate this will be highlighted. We have modern
winnowing baskets from China and a modern quern from India.
- Children have the opportunity to mill flour with the hand quern
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