Abbotts Hall Farm

Visit our working arable farm to learn about food production and sustainable farming methods to help our farmland wildlife. Find different habitats and understand the effects of breaching the sea wall and the salt marsh created.

Adapted for KS1-4:

FARMING AND WILDLIFE...

Learn how Essex Wildlife Trust farms a range of arable crops for the benefit of people and wildlife. Understand the pioneering coastal realignment project, where the seawall has been breached to create a valuable saltmarsh habitat.

Course Content: 

Understand the history of farming, wildlife and the future of sustainable food production. Orienteering trail to discover the animals who live on the farm and what they eat - food webs. Join the organic debate - become a scientist, farmer or conservationist, see where you stand. Survey habitats, look at arable fields, hedgerows and saltmarsh, identify plants, and grind your own flour to use it making flatbread to eat!