Arty kids win prizes in NFU food competition
11 February 2010
A creative schoolgirl has won an NFU competition which challenged children to get arty and make a picture on the theme of farming using food.
The competition was featured in the 'Changing Attitudes' activity books and youngsters could use any food items to make a picture, as long as they were grown or produced in England and Wales.
Nine-year-old Layla Balfour from Pembrokeshire has been awarded the top prize of a digital camera for her farmland scene which was made entirely of ingredients grown on her family's vegetable garden.
An honourable mention was also given to the year four and five art club at Knightlow School in Rugby. Their 'tractor in the sun' was created using apples, plums, damsons, rose hips, hawthorn berries, crab apples and maize all picked from local hedgerows and green tomatoes from the school garden. The art club were given a book - The Victorian Farm - in recognition of their efforts.
Packed full of facts, puzzles and quizzes, the Changing Attitude booklet is designed to explain how farmers produce tasty, nutritious food as well as managing and maintaining the British countryside.
The booklet is distributed to thousands of children at town squares, seaside resorts, county shows and schools through the NFU Roadshow which tours England and Wales, letting people know why farming matters in the twenty first century.
Whether it's hands-on experience of milking a life-like cow, matching raw ingredients with finished products or talking about the Red Tractor logo, the Roadshow aims to engage, educate and entertain children and adults of all ages.
