I am researching Kent Life Farm so I can then build a story for the script. Kent life is a amazing 28 acres of land with loads of different farmyard animals to see. It's a great place for family days out and of children to leaner about animal welfare. They have been running for over 150 years and have attached a mass audience ever since.
They have loads of event for all the season including Meet santa for their Christmas event as well as summer event for warmer days. they breed loads of free range livestock, which are all housed in historic barns. They also do loads of volunteer event for locals to get involved with the farming.
I also found this on their web page about the WWII houses that they have conserved for display.
WWII cottages from nearby Lenham display the typical home of a wartime house wife. As furniture and fittings were in short supply and rationed, the average wartime house was decorated in a 1930s style.
Our WWII home is even complete with sticky tape on the windows to reduce shatter, and an Anderson shelter in the back garden.
A historical survey dates Sandling Farmhouse to the 16th century. Today, vintage chic is displayed in the 1950s homestead. An exhibition in the attic details the history of the house and its various owners and a snapshot of life in the 1950s.
There is so much more to explore in our collection of original buildings, from the Village Hall relocated from Ulcombe, the Granary, the Oast House, traditional Hoppers’ Huts, through to the working Blacksmith's forge. A nostalgic trip down memory lane, for both the old and young alike.
http://www.kentlife.org.uk/discover-kent-life/vintage-village.aspx
I then found out that they have a local youth group called the Cobtree group that go every weekend and learn all about the farming trade to carry on in the future.
The Cobtree Young Farmers Club is a mixed group aged between 10 and 23 years, all with a common interest: animals. The Young Farmers meet at Kent Life every Saturday and learn about general husbandry for all our farmyard animals, in particular cattle, sheep and pigs.
The main event in the Cobtree Young Farmers calendar is the Kent County Show, where members show the Kent Life livestock, invariably returning with an impressive collection of rosettes and certificates.
http://www.kentlife.org.uk/discover-kent-life/farmyard-and-nature.aspx
From this i believe that i have all the information, i need to create a story and script for filming. I think we will focus on the Cobtree group and the work they do, also focus on the need for more farmers in the UK as it's dropped a massive 200,000 from the late 1930s to 2000.
Ruby found this link to more information about the decline of farmers since thew 1930s.
The declining farm workforce: losing small and family farmers at an alarming rate
In 1939, Britain had almost half a million farms, the majority less than 40 hectares, and employed almost 15% of the population. Since then Britain has lost over a thiord of its farms and the agricultural workforce has been in serious long-term decline. In 2000, there were 303,000 farms in the UK and an agricultural workforce of 557,000 (farmers and farmworkers) - about 2% of the total UK workforce.[26] Part of the loss of labour from the land has been due to the post-war industrialisation of farming: the replacement of farm labour by machinery, the use of chemical fertilisers and synthetic pesticides etc.
However, the pace of loss of farmers and farm workers has accelerated in recent years. Some 87,000 farmers and farm workers left farming in the UK between 1993 and 2001, and a further 18,000 left farming in 2002.[27] There is no sign that this exodus is letting up and the government predicts that by 2005, 25% of the remaining farms in the UK will have gone out of business or merged, with a further 50,000 people forced to leave farming.[28]
http://www.corporatewatch.org/content/rough-guide-uk-farming-crisis-3-uk-farming-crisis-which-crisis-do-you-mean-0
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