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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. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Learn what a food forest is and how it can meet our food needs. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Discuss each of the permaculture principles to see how many you can find in a food forest. |
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Growing food |
Food forests |
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Say the names and discuss the uses of plants in the food forest. |
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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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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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Build homes for the wild animals in a garden (e.g. leaf pile, log pile, bird house). |
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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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See a companion planting chart. |
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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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See the white balls (nitrogen fixing nodules) on the roots of legumes (e.g. peas or beans). |
