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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Listen to stories about the soil and the communities of minibeasts that live in it. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Find out that compost is good for plants and helps them grow. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Discover that food scraps can gradually turn to compost. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Learn that it is good to cover soil with mulch, to feed the worms and keep the soil moist. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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See, smell and feel healthy soil, and compare to degraded soil (e.g. soil from a lawn, intensively farmed field). |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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See the layers of a compost bin or worm tower (e.g. through a transparent side) to see how organic material transforms into compost. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Observe plants in the garden, noticing which ones are healthy or not and thus if they need more nutrients in the soil. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Make compost using different methods (e.g. hot composting, wormery, cold composting, liquid compost). |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Identify creatures in the compost (e.g. children create cards with pictures, names and explanations of the roles of that creature). |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Do a scientific experiment comparing different ways of making compost: e.g. under water vs air, with all 'greens' together vs with 'greens' and 'browns' in layers, in sun vs shade, with added worms vs without, adding effective micro-organisms, small vs large container, hot composting, wormery etc. Survey experiment weekly for 2+ months. Compare smell, colour, flies, decomposition rate etc. |
