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Using maths to understand food journeys

Stefan Gates visits an organic farm in Devon and follows the journey food takes from the field to our plates. Stefan helps pick spring greens in the field and tastes different salad vegetables. At the farm we see how the salad leaves are mixed together in the correct proportions to get a balance of tastes. We see the mixed salad being weighed and packed into bags using a machine. Stefan helps pack all the different vegetables into boxes before they are delivered locally.

Stefan then visits Ashley Primary, an Ecoschool in Surrey, where children grow their own vegetables for the school canteen. We see the short journey the food makes from garden to kitchen. Stefan helps the children plant onions before they show him the orchard they have planted which, seen from above, looks like a big rectangle of 6 rows of 4 trees. They count the trees in 4s to make 24 altogether.

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