Love Your Wellies

Description

• Age of pupils: 6-18 years

In this initiative, art was used to raise awareness about the value of peat landscape. FarmPEAT held an art competition and invited children from primary school to sixth grade to submit an art medium according to four themes; environment, farming, community and history.

The format of the art medium could be a model, literary, artistic or digital. A limited number of workshops were offered during the competition to participating schools to help guide students as they developed their ideas. There are prices, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Places are rewarded.

The highest amount is €250 per student, or €1000 if group entry. Young people are targeted as they are the farmers, decision-makers, policy-makers, community members, and land-owners of the future.