If you are a farmer, Farmhouse Breakfast Week is a great opportunity to promote your produce to the end consumer!  We have provided some suggestions below for ways in which you can get involved with the campaign.  You may also like to look at our case studies to see how people participated in previous campaigns.

Visit your local school

Contact your local primary school and offer to go and give a talk to the children about life on the farm and where breakfast foods come from.  You could donate some produce to the school so they can cook a special breakfast for the children during the week.  If they already have a breakfast club, perhaps you could attend to share breakfast with the children and talk to them there.

Organise a farm visit

Invite children from the local school or families from your local community to your farm for a visit.  You can tell them about your farm and the field to fork cycle to help children understand where their breakfast foods come from.  If you have a tea room, cafe or bed and breakfast at your farm, you could also put on a special breakfast for them.  For information about how to set up your farm for school visits have a look at www.visitmyfarm.org

Breakfast for the community

Why not join up with your local pub and provide a special farmhouse breakfast for your local community.  You could provide breakfast  for a couple of hours in the morning or put on an all day breakfast menu highlighting local produce and flavours.  If you charge for tickets to the event, you could also raise money for a community project or a local charity.  Don't forget to order some of our free posters to promote your event and our recipe booklets and stickers which you can use as giveaways.

Pictures from some previous events

Below is a picture of a charity breakfast event that was held at a farm in Hailsham



The NFU East Anglia organised a breakfast event at a school in Peterborough where a farmer cooked produce and dished out breakfast to the children

The video below shows an events which took place at a primary school where a local farmer went along to cook breakfast for the children