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Activities / Resources  

• For more information on Permaculture Design visit  www.permaculture.co.uk and www.permaculture.org.uk
• Permaculture Magazine is available to buy in our shop - make a stop in your visit.  
• Students could investigate the school lunches, calculating food miles, wastage and explore alternatives such as Meat Free Monday. The students propose a suggested action plan for the menu. 
• Students can help to design and build a school garden. If you would like help with this from one of our members of staff, we can come to your school - ask for more details.​​
• Visit https://www.52climateactions.com/

Food, Farming and Permaculture
​KS3

​This jam-packed day will provide a brilliant overview about all things food. Pupils will spend the first half of their day with local Farmer George or his son Will, on their large tractor trailer on our neighbouring farm. They will discover what food is produced on the chalk down-lands and how the farming effects the surrounding environment.

Back at the Centre students will gain an understanding of the global impact of food on the environment, FairTrade and what ‘sustainability’ means in terms of the food we eat. Taking a tour to see food growing, kitchen gardens full of herbs and examples of reusing recycled materials. Students will learn how to make their own plant potters out of newspaper and plant wildflower seeds for our diverse meadows. 

Pupils should leave with an understanding of why food is important, how growing your own can be fun and how it can contribute to a more sustainable world.

Farm Tour INFO

​Curriculum Links

• ​​KS3 Science - Nutrition and digestion - content of a healthy human diet: carbohydrates, lipids (fats and oils), proteins, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre and water, and why each is needed.​
• KS3 Geography - Human and physical geography - understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems.​ 
• KS3 Design and Technology - understand the source, seasonality and characteristics of a broad range of ingredients.

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