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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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Discuss why some people grow diverse plants together (in polycultures). |
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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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Find out why some plants have nitrogen fixing nodules. |
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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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Hear a story about companion planting with plants giving nutrients to other plants. |
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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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Celebrate the harvests from growing plants in polycultures, and compare with those from a monoculture. |
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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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Coppice nutrient-givers (nitrogen-fixers and dynamic accumulators) and use as a mulch on the rest of the garden (e.g. comfrey). |
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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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Play a matching game to learn which plants help each other best. |
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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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Decide which companion plants and nutrient-givers (nitrogen fixers and dynamic accumulators) to include in the garden and where, then plant them together (e.g. carrots and onions; maize, beans & squash). |
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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). |
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Growing food |
Companion plants and other nutrient givers |
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See plants which make nutrients available for other plants. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Discuss why some people are vegetarians and vegans, and what the alternatives to using animals within the garden and food chain might be. |
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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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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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Saying/singing thank you after spending time with animals or visiting them |
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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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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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Discuss what makes animals happy and how and what to share with them. |
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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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Appreciate the needs of the animals (e.g. not touching or carrying them if they don't like it). |
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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). |
