The Duchess Of Cambridge Visits Farms For City Children

ARLINGHAM, GLOUCESTERSHIRE - MAY 03: The Duchess of Cambridge listens to children author Michael Morpurgo read one of his stories during a visit to a "Farms for Children" farm on May 3, 2017 in Arlingham, Gloucestershire. The Duchess of Cambridge visited Farms for City Children to see their work giving young people from inner cities the chance to spend a week on a real working farm. Her Royal Highness joined a school group of pupils and teachers as they mucked in around the farm, and met childrens author Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare to learn more about the organisation they founded in 1976. The charity 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. It is an intense, learning through doing experience of a different life for children who may not know where their food comes from and have limited opportunities to explore the outside world. The organisation now has three working farms, where it welcomes around 3,200 children and 400 teachers a year. (Photo by Richard Pohle - WPA Pool/Getty Images)