Primary schools across Cornwall will soon be getting a visit from a new outreach project that aims to educate pupils about where their food comes from.

Organiser of the Royal Cornwall Show, the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association (RCAA), has launched the Farm and Country Days On The Road initiative to further its educational activities.

The charity has run the popular Farm and Country Days at the Wadebridge showground over the past five years with more than 6,000 seven- to nine-year-old children attending to date to learn about farming and food production.

The annual event reaches less than ten per cent of the target age group each year and with a long waiting list from schools eager to be involved this new enterprise aims to ensure the key messages reach a larger number of children.

A brand new trailer has been purchased and kitted out specifically for the task. The project has been put together by education coordinator, Emma Parkyn, who recently joined the RCAA team.

Emma said: ‘This project is fun and exciting and very much needed in educating children about what farming entails.’

Interactive learning resources which link with many areas of the national curriculum have been created and the mobile classroom also comes complete with a small kitchen area where children can produce their own tasty treats.

Primary schools who haven’t previously taken part in the Farm and Country Days in the North Cornwall area will be the first to be eligible for a visit, before the project heads to West Cornwall in the New Year.

For more information about the project or the RCAA’s educational work please visit www.royalcornwall.co.uk/education