Community Cow
Linking primary schools, communities, and local farmers
"If we stop caring about what we eat, then we stop caring about where it has come from, what it took to produce and what kind of life it has had."
Darren Sherwood, Founder of Exmoor Game School
Linking
We're linking a local primary school and it's community with a local farmer so children can begin to make informed decisions about where their meat comes from.
Learning
During this time, children visit the farm to learn about cattle care and conduct habitat surveys to understand biodiversity and habitat creation. The children also take part in a hands on meat processing session using venison. Giving a clear pathway of understanding of field to fork.
Experiencing
The children present their experiences and findings at the celebration event at the end of the project. Some of beef is used by the children to make a community meal for everyone at the celebration event with the rest going to the school kitchens. Members of the public can buy a literal steak in the project to help finance the next cow for the next school.
Cows to Link Communities
This Project Aims to
- Reconnect children and communities with their food and where it comes from - getting out of the classroom and seeing it first hand.
- Foster community cohesion between schools, the local community and the wider farming community.
- The most vulnerable in our community, namely the young should have access to the highest quality, nutrient dense food… often this is not the case.
- Change the narrative around grass-fed cattle from being seen as environmentally damaging to being recognised as habitat creators and a source of high-quality food.
- Finally, this is often overlooked but is at the core of the health and environmental issues facing today's society - this project encourages people to think about where their food comes from and what it took to produce.
Participate in Community Cow
Buy A Steak in This Project
Support this project (and your stomach) by buying a steak. All proceeds go back into funding the next community cow project.
Would you Like To Participate?
If you're connected to schools or are a farmer , and you'd like to participate in this project, please get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
