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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. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Share the abundance of the food forest in a picnic with hand-made dolls (made from products of a food forest). |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Be familiar with new vocabulary such as food forest, edible, poisonous |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Say the names of different plants in the food forest. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Observe the different layers in the food forest and compare with the layers in a forest (roots, ground cover, herbs, bushes, small tree, big tree, climbers, lichens). |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Play a game (e.g. with cards) matching the needs with the outputs for different elements in a food forest. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Be involved in designing and planting a food forest. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Maintain a food forest through removing tree guards, pruning, chopping and dropping 'weeds'. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Make non-food products from a food forest (e.g. dye clothes, weave baskets, beeswax candles). |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Value diversity in the food forest through story or song. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Visualise walking through a food forest and foraging different types of plants, herbs, honey, roots and more, and collect into a beautiful basket to share with other people in the local community. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Sit quietly in a food forest, listening, drawing, writing poems etc. |
