Farm Camp: Time for some very smelly telly on CITV

07/10/2009

Farm Camp is a brand new and unique factual entertainment series for CITV, starting daily on CITV on Monday 19th October.

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 the 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 where their food comes from and 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, will learn first hand about the source of their food and how it makes the journey from fields to farm table. This will be the children on Farm Camp’s first opportunity to see just where their food does come from, often leading to some surprising, shocking and startling revelations along the way.  

Over the series of ten shows, the recruits will live on a working farm and be mentored by Farmer Paul. He will set them a daily challenge which involves providing the food for that night’s dinner. Whether they are coming face to udder with the cows who 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 test on their very limited fruit and vegetable knowledge; the children will 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 on their way and in the final show will decide 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. And the children will give their views on their experiences, if reality has 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 children can then exchange them for gardening equipment to use in their school.