Farm Camp is a brand new and unique factual entertainment series for CITV, which launched on CITV on Monday 19th October 2009
This brand new factual show follows the exploits of nine plucky children aged between nine and twelve as they embark on a unique adventure of discovery - swapping their city lives for country living to follow the real life story of just where their food comes from!
Quitting the convenience of urban living, they head to the green fields of farm life for some full-on free range living. Their challenge is to spend two weeks at Farm Camp to discover what life is really like down on the farm. So it’s time for each of them to muck in and muck out.
The kids, and viewers at home, learn first hand about the source of their food and how it makes the journey from field to farm table. For the children atFarm Camp, this is the first opportunity to see just where their food does come from, leading to some surprising, shocking and startling revelations along the way.
Over the series of ten shows, the recruits live on a working farm and are mentored by Farmer Paul. He sets them a daily challenge which involves providing the food for that night’s dinner. Whether they are coming face to udder with the cows which will be providing the milk for the ice cream, attempting to tend some pigs while others make their own pork sausages, or being put to the test on their very limited fruit and vegetable knowledge, the children endeavour to do their best down on the farm.
During each show the children are split into two groups, coming together at the end of the day to eat - and hopefully savour - the food they have prepared.
Farmer Paul is judging them along the way and in the final show decides who has mucked in and made the most of their time on the farm in order to make it through Farm Camp and become farmers. The children give their views on their experiences. Has reality matched their expectations and will they think differently now when they tuck into their Sunday roast.?
Farm Camp was produced in association with Morrisons as part of its Let’s Grow campaign. Morrisons is committed to educating children about where their food comes from. Farm Camp will show thousands of young viewers the journey that food goes on before it appears on their plates. Children across the nation can also get hands-on experience of growing their own food with Morrisons’ Let's Grow campaign. Families and friends can collect vouchers in stores across the nation, and schools can then exchange the vouchers for gardening equipment.
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