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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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Appreciate the needs of the animals (e.g. not touching or carrying them if they don't like it). |
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Animals in permaculture |
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Saying/singing thank you after spending time with animals or visiting them |
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Discuss what makes animals happy and how and what to share with them. |
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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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Animals in permaculture |
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Experience ways to integrate animals in the farm/garden in order to perform their ecosystem function (e.g. let chickens go into a field after the potato harvest, and allow them to turn the soil, add manure, remove pests; or create a flower meadow to feed pollinators (e.g. bees) who will also pollinate fruit trees). |
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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 |
Animals in permaculture |
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Look after animals in line with the permaculture ethics (e.g. fish, chickens, worms, birds). |
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Animals in permaculture |
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Create something from a product of an animal found in nature or a garden (e.g. candles, brushes, feather pens). |
