Digital News Production: HUGE UPDATE!

Unfortunately after a long wait, our group decided we needy to change our package story completely. Our contributors had got back to us way to late and we was running out of time. Hugh Lowe Farm told us that there farm was no longer growing their strawberries as the season had ran out and we would have to wait till next summer, which of course, we couldn't do.

Our group decided we would leave the Hugh Lowe Farm story and move on to back up ideas. Charlie found vegbox.com and we was going to create a story on why organic food that gets delivered in box's to your house, is healthier and cheaper than food from the markets. However, they got back to us and told us that we couldn't as their season had also ended.

We became stuck and wondered what we could actually do that's nature based that would still be running.

We began thinking, does it have to be literal food? Or can we look at the other side of farming - the animals. This let me on to finding kentlife.com . A farmyard that had a large variety of animals and a huge farm to film. I began searching through their website and luckily came across and group called the Cobtree Young Farmers Club. The club are a bunch of kids and teenagers of all ages that meet at the farm every Saturday. They get taught husbandry, agriculture and animal needs and they help out with the farming there. I discussed this with my group and we decided we could do a story about why we need more young farmers in the world, and how the Cobtree club is helping this happen, encouraging young people to get into the farming industry.

I immediately began contacting a media coverage woman called Leah Taylor, we sent emails back and forth each other and she was really interested in being part of the project!

Our group began planning our story and changing our script round to fit Kent Life.