Morpurgo started the farm in the
1970s so that city kids could try country life. Nick Duerden recalls
his own week of wonder and wellies
Thursday 3 March 2016
had a lightbulb moment: he and his wife
Clare, both increasingly disillusioned schoolteachers, would set up a rural
farm somewhere and invite city children to come and stay, and also to work on
it.
"We had both been immersed in the
countryside while growing up, and valued it tremendously," Morpurgo says.
"And we thought it was the right of every child, every urban child in
particular, to have a similarly bewitching experience."
The idea remained a flight of idealistic
fancy until Clare's father, Allen Lane Devon , make a
partnership with a real working farm next door, and see what happened."
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