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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Collect materials for the compost heap/wormery and feed it. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Help collecting home-made compost and placing it around plants to feed them. |
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Growing food |
Caring for soil |
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Sing a song about compost, such as the one on the CiP website. |
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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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Have a compost party to celebrate the output from your compost. |
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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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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. |