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City children get their first taste of farming life as tractor trundles into school

10 3
09.07.2025

Leading Norfolk farmer Tim Papworth visited Earlham Nursery School to speak to children about the food produced on his farm at Felmingham, near North Walsham, as well as the wildlife living there.

He was joined by Norfolk Young Farmers’ Club co-chairman Alice Saunders, who works for Norwich-based agricultural machinery supplier Ben Burgess and brought a tractor into the school.

Mr Papworth, a former NFU Norfolk chairman, is now an NFU Farmers for Schools Ambassador and his visit marked the start of a new relationship between the farming group and the urban school - including helping to........

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