RHET Fife organised a Food & Farming Day at Bowhouse, St Monans with primary schools from throughout the East Neuk.

Pupils attended nine interactive sessions covering:

• Bees & Honey with East Neuk Bees
• Machinery provided by Balcaskie Estate, talked through by Hunter Parsons
• Conservation with Jeremy Lesiourd, talking about hedges, birds and vermin control
• Minicks the Butcher, talking about red meat, butchery and health benefits of eating red meat.
• Bibi’s Bakery, making pancakes and talking about ingredients and where they come from, maths, business and design
• Scotland the Bread – Flour milling
• Scotland the Bread – Making rolls with the milled flour
• East Neuk Brewery – Introduction to brewing, smelling malt & hops and seeing the equipment used
• Planting session with Keeping the Plot, talking about how to grow vegetables, what they need to grow and how to look after them

All pupils (and teachers) left with a much better insight into the industries focused and said that it had been a fantastic learning experience.

Funding for the day came from local Common Good Funds to which we are extremely grateful, also to Bowhouse for allowing us the use of the venue.