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* All workshops come with notes for the teacher

1. Composting

Please ask students to bring some organic matter from home ‘in a paper bag’ to help feed the compost we will make

  • Set up a Compost

  • What is Compost?

  • Why make Compost?

  • Why our food scraps are so valuable?

  • How do our food scraps make Compost?

  • What little creatures make their home in Compost?

  • What can you do with Compost?

2. Worm Farming

Teachers please organise a small bowl of fruit scraps as the first meal for your worms

  • Set up a Worm Farm

  • Why are worms so important to us?

  • See and hold a worm

  • What other little creatures share a worm’s home

  • What do worms eat?

  • How do worms eat?

  • How do worms have babies?

  • How many babies can a worm have?

3. No Dig Gardening

Students build their own food garden, if you do not have a garden we can build a kitchen garden in boxes for the students to care for

  • Set up a small No Dig Garden

  • Why grow Organic Vegetables

  • No Dig Gardens do not require you to have good quality soil

  • No need to maintain it, nature does it for you

  • The easiest way to grow your own herbs and vegetables

  • Puts life into your soil while growing herbs and vegetables

  • Easy to build in the smallest of places

  • Does not require you to be an expert in gardening

  • NO DIG GARDENS ARE FUN

  • Why Mulch is called a Blanket?

4. Wicking Garden Beds

Gardens made in polystyrene boxes; students can decorate and paint these boxes after planting

  • What is a wicking Bed?

  • Build a Wicking Garden Bed

  • No wasting water, this box garden uses between 40 and 50% less water than a conventional garden bed

  • How does a wicking bed water from the roots up?

  • Ideal for school gardens; when school holidays come around the herbs and vegetables will survive

  • Can be made to any scale

5. Reuse, Recycle & Avoid and No Waste Lunches

Does your school have a recycling program or do you want to start one, this workshop will help you on your way

  • Students have a recycling race

  • What packaging can we can avoid buying?

  • What about Plastic Food wrapping

  • Students are challenged to wrap awkward foods i.e. Grapes and Wraps which they can then eat

  • Students practice wrapping using paper and string, paper bags, greaseproof paper, backing paper and elastic bands

  • In addition, a copy of the notes to show parents how to supply No Waste Lunches

  • What is an opportunity shop?

6. All about Seeds

A busy hands-on workshop; Learn to sprout seeds in your kitchen, plant seeds to grow into seedlings, how to plant established seedlings, build a small-box Kitchen herb garden

  • What is in a seed?

  • How to sprout seeds; a living food

  • Tasting sprouting seeds

  • Planting seeds

  • Planting seedlings

  • Make a small kitchen garden in a polystyrene box garden

7. Non-Toxic Body Care

Informative and fun, students take home products they have made, recipe sheet supplied *please ask student to bring recycled containers to use

  • What are we putting on out skin?

  • What is in those personal care products?

  • What chemicals are used around us?

  • How do body care products affect our health?

  • What are bacteria?

  • Make and take home non toxic body care ‘potions’ and cleaning creams to help clean the house

8. Investigating Soils

Students develop an understanding how precious soil is as a resource in our world

  • Growing our food, healthy soil is essential in order to grow the quantities of food that we require

  • Soil is part of our living system

  • How does healthy soil convert green house gases to fresh air

  • How can school and home organic waste be converted into precious compost

  • Why are worms important to the soil system?

  • Why it is important to improve and protect the soil

  • Soil testing; this is a fun activity, students learn how to find the Ph of the soil

  • A copy of ‘The Soils Play’; Fun way to learn what the soil is made up of

9. Restore your used Worm farms or Composting Bins

Do you have a worm farm or a compost bin that needs restoring?

Students will rebuild a worm farm or compost bin

Worm Farming

  • Why are worms so important to us?

  • Restore the worms’ home

  • See and hold a worm

  • What other little creatures share a worm’s home

  • What do worms eat?

  • How do worms eat?

  • How do worms have babies?

  • How many babies can be in one worm capsule?

Composting

  • What is Compost?

  • Restore your compost bin

  • Why make Compost?

  • Why our food scraps are so valuable?

  • How do our food scraps make Compost?

  • What little creatures make their home in Compost?

What can you do with Compost?