A DAIRY is keen to educate the region's children about the origins of food.

Almost 100 primary school pupils visited Village Farm at Mordon, near Sedgefield, to see cows milked using digitised, robotic machines then went to the dairy at Embleton Hall Farm near Wingate, Durham, to see yoghurt made, milk tested and bottled, and everything packaged for retail.

Schools that took part– Hedworth Lane, St Bede’s and Ingleton C of E Primary Schools– won a contest to design their ideal milkshake.

Paul Thompson, director of Embleton Hall Dairies, who organised the tours, said: “Knowing and trusting where your food comes from and how it is produced is extremely important to us and we thoroughly enjoyed welcoming the children to the farm and our dairy.”