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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Discuss the importance of fertile soil and different ways of providing it (e.g. fertilisers, manure, nitrogen-fixing plants, compost). |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Research why people dig, what the effects of digging are and how we can reduce digging by using different plants, not stepping on soil, mulching etc. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Learn vocabulary: soil, lime, mycellium, fungi, loam, silt, fertility, compact. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Learn about composting as a way of cycling nutrients locally, enabling us to 'produce no waste' and seeing how even worms 'garden'. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Use some products of animals found for art and craft (e.g. feathers, honeycomb, painting eggs). |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Saying/singing thank you after spending time with animals or visiting them |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Discuss what makes animals happy and how and what to share with them. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Observe a permaculture way of keeping fish, such as in a naturally-styled pond which fits with its environment. (Educators can find out more about Sepp Holzer's work). |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Visit a farm where domesticated animals roam freely and see how their houses are designed for winter and compare to regular farms (e.g. sheep, cows, goats, ducks, chickens, guinea pigs). |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Create habitat for wild animals in a garden (e.g. wildlife pond, wildflower meadow). |
