Bush Shelter : How To Build a Survival Hut From Scratch

Bush Shelter : How To Build a Survival Hut From Scratch

In the mid 1980s, Woodend Primary School in central Victoria developed a program where Grade 4 students travelled to a ‘farm school’ for a semester. For those 6 months, the students were immersed in a rural curriculum where the day saw them tending to their plot within the vegetable garden, caring for the farm animals and …

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Australian PlantBank : A Living Laboratory to Explore with Kids

Australian PlantBank : A Living Laboratory to Explore with Kids

Reading The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert was all it took to convince me that I needed to pay more attention to the plants around me, even moss. When I discovered the existence of the Australian PlantBank I knew I had to visit, even more so when I realised that it had partnered with Kew …

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