Northey Street City Farm offers a range of educational activities suitable for all age groups. 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.
Bring your curriculum to life for your students with a visit to our vibrant, green oasis. Northey St City Farm is the perfect “living classroom” for exploring ways to create a regenerative future. Investigate our fruit orchards, food forests, vegetable gardens, bush tucker garden, composting systems, chooks, European and native bees, worms and more! We love to share our passion for sustainability and learning! Take a look at our current options below or please reach out to our Youth Education Coordinator to discuss your groups’ specific needs and interests youthedn@nscf.org.au.
Take an interactive and sensory walk through the food gardens, fruit orchards, food forests, and recycling systems of Northey Street City Farm. Meet the farm and wildlife which make NSCF their safe haven and taste the yummy honey from our bees.
Cost: $14 p/participant ($220 group minimum) GST inclusive
Take an interactive and sensory walk through the food gardens, fruit orchards, food forests, and recycling systems of Northey Street City Farm. Then, undertake one of the following hands-on activities:
Cost: $20 p/participant ($300 group minimum) GST inclusive
Cost: $18 p/participant ($280 group minimum) GST inclusive
Cost: $18 p/participant ($280 group minimum) GST inclusive
Cost: $18 p/participant ($280 group minimum) GST inclusive
Take a guided tour of the City Farm to see permaculture in action, with a focus on curriculum linked topics according to the year level and interests of the group. After the tour, students have a chance to engage in one of the hands-on activities described below.
Teachers can choose one or more topic areas for their group. Click HERE to find the topics.
Hands-on activities to choose from:
Cost: $18 p/participant ($280 group minimum) GST inclusive
Cost: $18 p/participant ($280 group minimum) GST inclusive
Cost: $20 p/participant ($300 group minimum) GST inclusive
Take a guided tour of the City Farm to see permaculture in action. Students learn how permaculture can contribute to food security and provide an important alternative to conventional agriculture. An education kit with curriculum-linked worksheets and resources for teachers is available for the ‘Biomes and Food Security’ Year 9 Geography unit.
After the tour, students have a chance to engage in one of the following hands-on activities:
How it works: During the booking, teachers can choose one of the activity combinations:
Cost: $18 p/participant ($280 group minimum) GST inclusive
Cost: $18 p/participant ($280 group minimum) GST inclusive
Cost: $20 p/participant ($300 group minimum) GST inclusive
Bookings are not paid until after your visit, so there is no financial commitment when making a tentative booking.
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 and you will be invoiced after your visit.
OMG, our trip was absolutely amazing! The children had so much fun and learned so many new things. They had numerous experiences, from rubbing leaves between their fingers to feeding chooks, checking out a bush turkey’s nest, picking and eating fresh vegetables and wild plums, exploring the inside of a beehive, and tasting the honey. I was in the group led by Richard, who was truly amazing with the kids — so patient and accommodating. The other educators were fantastic as well. We really want to thank them for their patience with our kids and for giving us the incredible opportunity to visit your farm. A special thank you to Bob! Many of the children mentioned that meeting him was one of the highlights of the trip.
Anna Megueria, Classroom Teacher, 1/2A
Runcorn Heights State School
Any enquiries can be made directly through the Youth Education Coordinator:
Phone: 3857 8775
Email: youthedn@nscf.org.au
ABN: 16 494 592 971
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