School Tours (Click here for other group tours) 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! 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: 1) Sensory walk along food gardens 2) Feed and care for chooks 3) Learn about worm farms 4) Help make and turn compost 5) Propagate plants and seeds. Grades: Prep – 10 Duration: 2hrs. Cost: $8 p/student 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: 2hrs Cost: $10 p/student 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: $6 p/student 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. 1) Harvesting bushfood 2) Preparing and cooking bushfoods 3) Tasting bushfood 4) Learning about native bees Grades: 4 – 10 Duration: 2.5 hrs. Cost: $12 p/student NATURAL ORIENTEERING & SENSORY AWARENESS Using either simple direction and pacing (lower school) to compass reading (middle school). This problem solving activity develops plant knowledge and sensory awareness (sight, smell and touch) as students weave their way in small groups through the gardens. Grades: 4 – 7 Duration: 2hrs Cost: $8 p/student ENVIRONMENTAL MATHS Students explore shapes, patterns, angles and relationships with plants, animals and natural materials in the garden and bush environments. Grades: 2 - 7 Duration: 2hrs Cost: $8 p/student 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. Choose from the following hands-on activities: 1) Propagating plants in the nursery 2) Seed saving 3) Harvesting fruit and vegetables (seasonal) 4) Creating no-dig garden Grades: 11 - 12 Duration: 2.5 hrs. Cost: $12 p/student ART IN NATURE Students explore elements of art found in nature. They: 1) Make observational drawings of the natural landscape with attention to organic forms. 2) Students collect natural found objects and make rubbings of textures found in nature 3) Discuss the relationship of lines and shapes to suggest surface texture. 4) Explore tonal value through mixing colours to print leaf shapes. Grades: Pre-7 Duration: 2 hours Cost: $10 p/student Bookings No charge for teachers or accompanying adults. Minimum fee of $60 per group. Minimum advance notice: three weeks please. We will contact you to confirm the details and booking. Please download the booking form here Return by fax: 3857 8108 Email: farmtours@northeystreetcityfarm.org.au All enquiries to Sara - 3857 8775 Thank you for supporting Northey Street City Farm!