(Not with a school? Group Tours are also available.)
Learning for the Future
Northey Street City Farm offers a range of educational activities suitable for all age groups and school pedagogies. These activities provide students with an opportunity to learn about permaculture practices and experience the life of an urban farm. They have also been designed to work across curriculum and fit a number of learning outcomes.
NSCF is the perfect “living classroom” for students to interact with our natural environment and learn practical ways in which to activate a more sustainable future. Investigate our fruit orchards, vegetable gardens, bush tucker area, recycling systems, chooks, worms and more!
Our talented and dynamic team of Farm Tutors includes classroom teachers, experienced sustainability workshop facilitators and advanced permaculture students and practitioners. We love to share our passion for sustainability and learning!
Key areas for curriculum: Science, Technology, Art, HPE, SOSE.
Choose from any of the following workshops:
FARM LIFE
Worm farms, animals, herbs and vegetables and
composting
Take a look into the life at the farm. Students participate in a number of activities, including:
Sensory walk along food gardens
Feed and care for chooks
Learn about worm farms & composting
Propagate plants or seeds
Grades: Prep – 10
Duration: 2hrs.
Cost: Approx $10 p/participant – Please contact us for a quote
COB OVEN FARM COOKING
Students learn about seasonal planting, harvest vegetables from the gardens, prepare and cook them in the farm’s cob oven. Workshop finishes with communal lunch fresh from the oven. Students also discuss materials and techniques used in making a cob oven. Lunch included.
Grades: 4 – 12
Duration: 3hrs
Cost: Approx $20 p/participant – Please contact us for a quote
BASIC FARM TOUR
Take a guided tour through the food gardens, fruit orchard, recycling systems and enterprises of Northey Street City Farm.
Open for all ages.
Duration: 1hr
Cost: Approx $8 p/participant – Please contact us for a quote
Please note: Morning tea and lunch can also be arranged at an extra cost.
BUSH TUCKER & MEDICINES
Students take a guided tour through the farm’s bushtucker and bush medicine plantings. Students discuss the importance of plants and their nutritional value in Aboriginal culture.
Harvesting available bushfood
Preparing, cooking and eating available bushfood
Learning about native bees
Grades: 4 – 10
Duration: 2.5 hrs.
Cost: Approx $15 p/participant – Please contact us for a quote
FEEDING THE WORLD’S PEOPLE
Take a guided tour of the City Farm to see permaculture in action. Students learn how working with nature, a permaculture system grows food and its community while contributing to the sustainability of our environment. Students also participate in group discussion about the benefits sustainable food systems as opposed to chemical or GM mono-culture systems. Students will have a chance to partake in hands-on activities that may involve:
Propagating plants in the nursery
Seed saving
Harvesting fruit and vegetables (seasonal)
OR:
Creating no-dig garden
Grades: 11 – 12
Duration: 2.5 hrs.
Cost: Approx $15 p/participant – Please contact us for a quote
KREATIVE KIDS
Three workshops in one!
Evolutionary yoga - Students spend 30 minutes participating in a playful and peaceful exploration of the evolutionary story of animals through a sequence of yoga poses and movements, from the first reptiles through to the cat, the dog, the monkey and others, ending with an exploration of movements that are unique to human kind. They are guided by an experienced yoga practitioner.
When students are relaxed and energized we will take a short guided tour of the farm, looking at the chickens, composting and food gardens before settling into our art in nature session. We will talk about recycling systems and the ethics of permaculture at Northey Street City Farm.
Students will choose from several activities – including painting a pot and planting a seed to take home, making garden mobiles or clay animals, or making a scarecrow.
Please contact us (details below) for further information. Maximum 25 students per session.
School Tour Bookings
Cost is based both on the number of students attending and also on the number of Farm Tutors required.
Minimum fee of $100 per group, payable as a deposit one week prior to date of visit.
To ensure arrangements can be made, a minimum advance notice of three weeks is usually sufficient.
We will contact you to confirm the details and booking.
Download the school booking form
(or simply contact us below)
Enquiries can be made directly through the Education Coordinator, or through the Farm office:
Phone: 3857 8775
Email: info@nscf.org.au
ABN: 16 494 592 971
Return by fax: 3857 8108
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