Urban Farms - offer various workshops on sustainability topics as well as a chance for students to experience small working farms. For a website offering a search facility to your nearest city farm click here.

 For city farms in Yorkshire,   Heeley City Farm is in Sheffield. It is an environmental visitor centre offering a schools education programme and holiday activities. On site is rare breed animals, garden centre, vegetarian cafe plus the S Yorkshire Energy Advice Centre. Meanwood Valley Uban Farm is in Leeds. The new 'epicentre' provides an interactive arena for learning more about environmental issues. The farm’s education team helps thousands of school children to experience the natural environment through practical hands-on projects. From pond dipping to mini-beast hunts, there is plenty to do at Meanwood.

Farm Visits you can search for your nearest organic farm open to visits here, or for the other farm visits click onto the website here  or onto the Teachernet growing schools website and click on the map to find your nearest working farm offering visits.

Wind Farms - In late 2006 there were 135 wind farms in operation in the United Kingdom, comprising over 1700 turbines with a total capacity of over 1900 megawatts.  This is enough to power over a million homes and save over four million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year. You are likely to have to contact the wind farm prior to your visit.

Ovenden Wind Farm near Halifax

Environmental Education Centres include St Nicholas Fields in York.

The Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales. Offers "eco-cabin" residential educational experience to schools; the largest visitor centre for sustainable development and alternative energy in the UK; organic food grown on site for the cafe, a specialist bookshop and more. Click here to go to their site.

Forest schools encourage an appreciation of the natural world and build self-esteem and confidence. This is achieved through regular visits to special woodland sites. Individuals can master tasks of increasing complexity and learn the associated social skills. The new Forest Schools website is building a map of local providers.

The Global Outdoors website contains a database of contacts and case studies for those who wish to educate for a fairer and more sustainable world, using visits to the "outdoor classroom". You can search it to find topics and what's happening in your area. It is created by Cumbria Development Education Centre and funded by the Department For International Development. Global Outdoors