AT THE FARM THEY LEARN – 

GARDENING

• About growing produce as they make vegetable gardens, plant, harvest.  Having the experience of picking and cooking seeing fresh to the table.  

 

• An appreciation for health and nutrition and the importance of healthy eating and sustainable food choices is reinforced as they use the produce from the gardens to encourage healthy eating practices.  

 

• To Investigate what to plant each season, children take ownership of the vegetable “pick and eat”.  

 

TOOLS 

• To use tools safely and responsibly as they learn to select for themselves the tool they want to pursue to investigate and the purpose – i.e.  as they make signs to sell their produce.  

 

ENVIRONMENT

• About the variety of plant and animal life around them

 

• Become more physically active learning how to move safely on uneven  sloping terrain of the unpredictable and challenging spaces of the outdoors and around animals. 

 

• Take an active role in caring for our environment and contributing to a sustainable future. This includes recycling, using recycled resources, use of rainwater tanks and water conservations composting, vegetable gardens, a worm farm, feeding scrapes to the pigs, growing own vegetables, writing menu books form garden to table