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We are planning food weeks in February and May 2008. At our last food week, primary and secondary students and other local young people visited the farm, cooked and ate lunch together. They made frittata using freshly laid eggs from our rescued battery chickens, interesting salads, organic rose veal meat balls and home made bread. They rounded off the day with the egg cracking game and washing up!

One parent wrote “(my son) has had such a wonderful day! He has talked non stop about all his adventures, right up until he went to bed… from the slurry heap right through to the ‘man with the cow trousers’ teaching them all to make bread. Thank you, it sounded magical!”

To know more contact Julia Bracewell

	Citizenship
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	cross-curricular work.

Based on a project piloted by Kent and the Wider World with Brockhill Park Performing Arts College and Thirty Three and a Third.
Available free of charge thanks to Oxfam’s funding.
Contact Ruth

Practical conservation volunteering opportunities.  For details

	Commonwork is now using waste oil from local chip shops to produce bio-diesel at Bore Place.  We are using this for farm machinery and staff vehicles.
	A big thank you to Kent Downs AONB for their support for our renewable energy plans. After careful research and design, we now have funding to install a biomass boiler to provide heat and hot water in Bore Place House. This will replace the oil we currently use and will make a significant step forward in our carbon reduction plan.

Commonwork farm has already achieved a carbon and resource efficient commercial organic farm with a far lower ratio of fossil fuel to productive output than the UK industry standard.

But the farm does not exist in isolation and has a further objective: to show how a mixed farm can both deliver the government’s 60% overall carbon emission reduction target from field to dinner plate, and produce and distribute its products without relying on fossil fuel. This creates the ZEF, the Zero fossil Energy Farm, which builds on current leading edge work, but extends knowledge and practice further.

As a first step towards this vision, Commonwork has been supported by the Kent Energy Centre in initial investigations into renewable power at Bore Place.

Helen Bentley Fox has reported on our greenhouse gas emissions (1400 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per annum) and we are now exploring the farm of the future at Bore Place. We know that we want to continue to grow food, but what and how – and how it is distributed – given the impact of and on climate change, are big questions. If you would like to contribute to our discussions, contact Jacqueline Leach
 

ZEF "Low-carbon Roadmap to 2050":	download
ZEF "Vision of the Future":	download
These downloads are in 'pdf' (Acrobat Reader format) file.  If you do not have Acrobat Reader then click on the link at the bottom of this page.

	Naturally contains much more omega-3 fatty acid than non-organic milk. Omega-3 is essential for maintaining a healthy heart, supple and flexible joints, healthy growth and strong bones and teeth.
	Much higher in vitamins and anti-oxidants than non-organic milk. Recent research found organic milk contains on average 50% more Vitamin E and 75% more beta carotene (which our bodies convert to Vitamin A)
	Free from artificial pesticides and fertilizers, routine antibiotics use and GM feed use.

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