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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 |
Food forests |
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Be in a food forest with different plants growing together, notice the smells, sounds and textures. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Be in a woodland with different plants growing together, notice the smells, sounds and textures. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Transplant different plants (e.g. fruit trees, bushes, herbs, ground cover) into the designed food forest. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Eat food straight from a food forest. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Spot some plants in a food forest, perhaps using ID/flash cards. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Make non-food creations from a food forest (e.g. tie dye cloth, nature loom, beeswax candles). |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Draw gifts of the food forest in different seasons. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Listen to the storybook, and admire the pictures, about a child receiving inspiration and support to create a food forest 'Mirabelle's Forest Garden' by Ina Curic and Kelemen Kinga. |