The Yorkshire Agricultural Society headquarters, based at the showground in Harrogate, was the venue of an event to promote the Eat Local philosophy.

Eighty youngsters from Woodlands School, Harrogate, were given a breakfast of bacon and sausage butties to mark the start of Farmhouse Breakfast Week.

The youngsters were told where the pork meat had come from and how it was produced by Grant and Mark Burton, of Manor House Farm, Wilberfoss, near York.

Ken Davill, of Davill's Patisserie in Ripon, brought samples of flour and wheat seeds to explain how bread is made, and youngsters had a chance to have a go at plaiting dough.

Members of Ladies in Pigs demonstrated how pork products are cooked - including the bacon and sausages inside the childrens' butties.

Caroline Wood, teacher at Woodlands School, said: "It's been marvellous. The children have been able to get a better understanding of farming and food production.

"We used to be able to visit farms but because of hygiene regulations, that isn't so easy now, so this is a way of bringing the farming to the children and it fits in well with the curriculum."

Updated: 09:33 Tuesday, January 21, 2003