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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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Create habitat for wild animals in a garden (e.g. wildlife pond, wildflower meadow). |
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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 |
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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Find out that "weeds" are indicators of soil condition and can repair damaged soil (as they can establish quickly, protect and restore soil bare soil). |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Role play soil - Each person takes on a role of an element of the soil (e.g. clay/sand/silt particles, water, air, organic matter, plant roots, fungus, bacteria), then dramatise how those elements interact in different soils (e.g. compact, dry, wet, rich soil). Compacted soil has no air. At the end create a perfect mixture for growing which is 1/4 air, 1/4 water, 10% organic matter and 40% mineral. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Hear a story about how all of life as we know it depends on soil. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Have a compost party to celebrate the output from your compost. |
