• Check out where your local Farmers’ Market is
• Talk to your Market Organiser
• Talk to stall holders
• Find out who to contact (look on Farmers’ Market website)
• Look for a gap in the market
• Brainstorm ideas with class
• Contact EBP (Educational Business Partnership) in local area
• Are there any businesses can help you and would welcome contact with children(good for publicity)
• Write to local businesses
• Could they help with funding (go armed with lots of ideas)
• Try and enlist the help of parents and governors
  

Downloads:

• Ideas for School Projects
• Visits to Farms and Companies
• Visits from the Experts
• Farmers Market questionnaire
• Shoppers questionnaire
• Flavoured Oils and Vinegars Stall
• Designing Labels
• Running a Herbs and Preserves Stall
• Herb Questionnaire
• Design your own market stall logo
• Making and designing lavender bags
• Design your own jam pot labels
• Design your own market stall labels
• Herb fact sheet

Junior Farmers Market case study

A Whole School Approach

School Dinners

"A Year In the Life of the Farmers' Market" project

Setting up a Fruit Tuck Shop

A Children's debate on farmers' markets

Farm Visits

Apple Days           

Bees In The Curriculum

Wheat, Barley and Oats