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Guernsey Dairy have worked with St Martin’s Primary School to demonstrate how food miles can be reduced by enjoying local dairy products.
Year 2 students were allowed to taste some dairy staples, milk a model cow by hand, and recreate the short journey between Les Fauconnaires farm to the dairy noted as being one of the shortest food mile distances at 3km.
The children also programmed Bee-Bots to follow the path other foods such as grapes, bananas, and sweet potatoes, travel as they hopped from one continent and country to another.
Teacher Nicola Barton said the hands-on learning completed the geography curriculum on food miles.
“In previous lessons, they have learnt how to look at food labels to find out where food is from. They used digital maps and atlases to find different places in the world, they learnt which foods had travelled the furthest and which had travelled the least distance and they also learnt about climate and why some foods can’t be grown in Guernsey,” she said.
“We are very grateful to Jim and Liz Naftel at Les Fauconnaires Farm and The Guernsey Dairy for supporting us.”
The pupils also previously learned about how dairy and other local products are made.
A spokesperson from Guernsey Dairy said that it was wonderful to see the enthusiasm on the pupils’ faces.
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