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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Animal families, homes, names, footprints and other signs |
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Learn about how animals defend themselves (e.g. spines of a hedgehog or by looking like dangerous animal e.g. wasp), and how they get around other species' defenses. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Animal families, homes, names, footprints and other signs |
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Look after an animal for several weeks (e.g. worms, fish, chickens) with the help of an adult. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Animal families, homes, names, footprints and other signs |
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Be confident to touch animals, and not to harm them. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Help looking after animals in a permaculture way (e.g. fish, chickens, worms). |
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Growing food |
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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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Research the way indigenous people (e.g. Sami, native Americans, ) used the whole of an animal (e.g. buffalo) to meet many of their needs (e.g. clothes, housing, footwear, music, boat, food). Explore how local people's traditional practices enabled them to 'produce no waste' and 'use and value renewable resources'. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Build homes for the wild animals in a garden (e.g. leaf pile, log pile, bird house). |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Experience the 'cascade of intervention' when dealing with an animal 'pest', e.g. If there is a slug, 1) what happens if you do nothing about it? 2) What happens if you pick off the slugs (what time of day is best to do this?) or protect plants with a copper? 3) If that doesn't improve the slug 'problem', is there something you could bring in that would eat the slugs, e.g. Indian Runner Ducks? 4) If that still can't work, can you add something mineral or mechanical e.g. salt. 5) Only if all else fails, consider whether to use organic slug pellets and how that would effect everything in the garden. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Learn what bees and other insects do for us and how we can look after them. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Learn about sustainable aquaculture systems and when, and why, they can be appropriate. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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See a natural bee keeping system. |
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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 |
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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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Watch cows, sheep or goats being milked by hand, and have a try if interested. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Notice what wild animals are eating, and what their homes look like. |
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Growing food |
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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Create something from a product of an animal found in nature or a garden (e.g. candles, brushes, feather pens). |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Give thanks for all the things that animals do for us and other living beings. |
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Growing food |
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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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Share feelings and thoughts about the ethics of keeping animals in a garden. |
