More than 600 primary aged children visited the Stockbridge Technology Centre for its Food Live event, to celebrate the Year of Food and Farming.
Pupils from 14 primary schools toured the fields, before harvesting a range of vegetable and salad crops from the field and glasshouses to take home, including potatoes, carrots, lettuce, radish, broccoli, courgettes and cucumbers.
They all made healthy pizzas for their lunch or carrot cake buns in the afternoon cookery sessions. They tasted fruit smoothies, tried their hand at milking and looked at how oil seed rape is being used to make biodiesel.
More than 120 children also went on the Yorkshire Forward Cooking Bus and made a range of dishes to take home.
The event ran from June 30 to July 4.
The Year of Food and Farming, which ends in September, aims to encourage primary school children to visit the countryside, and get them involved in growing and cooking.
Event organiser Julian Davies said: “It was a real team effort, with local people and companies helping to make each day memorable for the children. The support from English Village Salads and Yorkshire Fresh Fruit by supplying the fruit for the smoothies, providing a punnet of cherry tomatoes for each visitor and also sponsoring the costs for one of the days was very much appreciated.
"Several local schools have already asked if they can come again and some final-year primary children thought it was the best trip ever!”
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