TONY COOKE'S FARM

Welcome to Moorhouse Grange

My name is Tony Cooke and I am the Programme Director of the Year of Food and Farming - the person ultimately responsible for ensuring the Year is a blinding success! Just as importantly though, I am also very proud to be a farmer and have been 'walking the talk' on my own farm for the last ten years by hosting regular school visits, often from inner-cities across Yorkshire.

Moorhouse Grange is a conservation award-winning family run arable farm covering around 566 hectares (1400 acres). The farm has been a national 'LEAF Demonstration Farm' (chosen for its sustainable farming practices) since 2000. Cropping includes potatoes, winter wheat, oilseed rape and clover leys. We also have an extensive area of the farm (32 hectares or 80 acres) dedicated as wildlife habitats including features such as; beetle banks, nectar and pollen patches, wild bird strips, reedbeds, ponds and 6.5 hectares (16 acres) of rare magnesium limestone wildflower meadow currently under restoration.

The farm is CEVAS accredited for school visits and is a recipient of an Educational Access Grant from Natural England, so all visits to the farm are free. We have long experience of linking the visit to the curriculum and with a wealth of interest to study can work as well for secondary schools as for primary schools.

THIS SITE IS AIMED AT SCHOOLS, CHILDREN & FAMILIES - if you are a farmer, please see my blog on FWi at www.fwi.co.uk/tonycooke



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Try a week on a working farm

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Visit our farm

Make a visit to our conservation award-winning farm where nature lives in harmony with farming.

Ask me - I'm a farmer!

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Blogs

Trainee Teachers get down on the farm
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Posted: 28/05/2008
Yesterday I joined the team at Harper Adams University College to see a training programme pilote...
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Jimmy - A Farming Hero!
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Posted: 28/05/2008
Friday saw me visiting Jimmy's Farm to meet with the man himself. When I arrived, I shouldn't hav...
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Co-Operative connects with Concrete Kids
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Posted: 28/05/2008
I was very pleased to attend an event last Thursday at Berners Hall Farm, the Co-Operative farm n...
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News

(09 May 2008)
3rd June - Meeting with Joanne Denney-Finch, CEO of IGD

I will be meeting with Joanne Denney-Finch, CEO of the Institute of Grocery Distribution, to disc...

(09 May 2008)
28th May - Meeting with Rick Bendell, Marketing Director, ASDA

I will be meeting with Rick Bendell, Marketing Director at ASDA to discuss their support for a le...

(09 May 2008)
23rd May - Meeting with Jimmy Doherty

I will be travelling to Jimmy's Farm, near Ipswich, to meet with Jimmy, star of the hit BBC serie...

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Photos

Allotment in Covent Garden
Allotment in Covent Garden
Dig for Victory allotment in St James Park

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Resources

FARMER POWERPOINT PRESENTATION - PRIMARY SCHOOLS

This is the powerpoint presentation that I use for talks in schools. UNFORTUNATELY, THE FILE SIZE IS TOO BIG TO UPLOAD ONTO THIS SITE, SO PLEASE CONTACT ME BY EMAIL ([email protected]) AND I WILL SEND IT TO YOU.

Cameron's Farm

Visit my eldest son, Cameron (9) at his YFF space 'Cameron's Farm'. Here he will be keeping a diary of his first attempts at keeping chickens and growing vegetables, as well as running commentary on his wildlife discoveries on the farm (he is the next S... [More]