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Introduction	Children’s author Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare founded Farms for City Children in 1976. Farms for City Children offers urban children from all over the country a unique opportunity to live and work together for a week at a time on a real farm in the heart of the countryside Wick Court is a fifteenth century manor house with moat, set in a fold of the River Severn. Wick Court is a low impact farm with local breeds of pigs cows. It also has a busy stable yard, where the children help care for horses and ponies. To learn about different farming styles, the children also work at a neighbouring commercial dairy farm with father and son Tim and David Merrett.

Introduction

Children’s author Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare founded Farms for City Children in 1976. Farms for City Children offers urban children from all over the country a unique opportunity to live and work together for a week at a time on a real farm in the heart of the countryside Wick Court is a fifteenth century manor house with moat, set in a fold of the River Severn. Wick Court is a low impact farm with local breeds of pigs cows. It also has a busy stable yard, where the children help care for horses and ponies. To learn about different farming styles, the children also work at a neighbouring commercial dairy farm with father and son Tim and David Merrett.