Randwick students to take part in food awareness excursion

  • 2019-11-23
Local schools in the Randwick area are eligible to take part in a free workshop that is being run to teach children about where food comes from.

The workshop has been designed to educate students on the cycle of food, from farm to table, with a focus on sustainable management.

Children will learn the basics of vegetable growing and will be taught to identify what type of plants can be grown seasonally. Students will learn how to maintain a vegetable garden, control insects, and use mulching and composting to improve soil health.

Students will also learn about how food is packaged for transport to stores, as well as the logistics of transporting perishable items. Water use in agriculture will also be discussed, as well as the trending popularity of urban gardening, which has become a viable option in recent times as a way of providing food security to local communities. Print shops can be useful to create Flyers for interested members of the community.

Students will be able to use their science knowledge to look at how plants adapt to the environment. The children will also be able to pose questions and gather data as part of their curriculum-based learning, and make predictions on future outcomes of food sustainability.

The workshop will be held on Thursday, December 12 at 10:30am at the Randwick Sustainability Hub.

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