Farms for City Children

and children and characters and how often characters who feel separate or lost or lonely find connection with animals and in a way that maybe a human can't sort of touch them.

We're really excited to speak about your farms for city children that you and Claire set up together.

Is that something that you experience a lot on the farms, watching children with animals and forming those connections?

Yes, we do.

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The Princess Royal joined Farms for City Children founders Sir Michael and Lady Clare Mopergo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the charity.

The Princess Royal has been patron of the agricultural charity since 1991 and has supported its work for more than three decades.

Her visit marked a special moment in the charity's golden anniversary year and provided the opportunity to thank her for her long-standing commitment to supporting the charity's mission of providing children with meaningful access to food, farming and nature.

Joined by the founders, the Princess Royal toured the farm and met children and teachers from John Donne Primary School as they groomed the farm's horses and donkeys, tended to produce in the farm's heritage walled garden and worked on the charity's innovative roundels agroforestry project.

The Princess Royal also met staff, volunteers, partners and supporters of the charity, learning more about Farms for City Children's plans to ensure future generations of children and young people can benefit from being farmers for a week.

Founded in 1976, Farms for City Children has welcomed more than 108,000 children and young people to its farms over the past five decades.

The charity operates three farms in Devon, Gloucestershire and Pembrokeshire, providing immersive residential experiences that enable children to spend a week living and learning together on working farms.

He added that it may be necessary for some farmers, particularly those who normally breed early, to delay the start of their breeding season until the rams and ewes have recovered sufficiently from the short- to medium-term effects of blue tank infection on fertility.

And finally, the charity Farms for City Children, set up by writer Michael Morpurgo and his wife Claire, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Michael and Claire both had a powerful vision to give children the chance to connect with farming and the countryside In the last five decades, the charity has supported over 105,000 children and young people to learn, grow and thrive on their farms in Devon, Pembrokeshire and Gloucestershire In a video shared by the charity, Michael said, I think what we realised all that time ago was that there are a lot of children missing out on the good things in life The good things in life as far as Claire and I were concerned was the countryside and nature and we knew children were not seeing and experiencing this.

It was that more than anything else which we wanted to put right.