Join us for a gastronomical journey – a celebration of food and the science that goes into designing, growing and commercialising it. This 8 course sit-down dinner features raw and cooked morsels designed by food scientists, showcasing a breadth of unusual ingredients that we may be eating well into the future. As guests enjoy a ‘meal…
Topic: Agriculture
Food Different by Design – Online class activity using Trello
Fast and easy activity for teachers to engage students of all ages in a STEM activity of approx. 45 minutes duration. Just download and copy the Trello template for all of the instructions. Students explore the UN Sustainable Development Goals and various food-related projects. Adjust this template as you need. Encourage students to: add checklists…
‘Fungal Futures’ – partnering with fungi for sustainable communities and healthy landscapes
Fungi play a crucial role in the ecosystem as decomposers, soil builders and nutrient cyclers. They also partner with at least 90% of plant species protecting them from disease, helping them to obtain nutrients and water and even communicate with other plants. Fungi are also an important food source for many animals. For humans they…
Beam Camp – Farm of the Future: Where will you Grow?
You will be sent into the future to help solve world food shortages. Your mission is to work as a team or independently to select the ideal location to set up your farm and decide what will be the best thing to grow/farm. Will you farm insects in the tropics, herd cattle in Antarctica, boldly…
See Inside Canberra’s One and Only Insect Farm – the future of waste management and protein production
As part of National Science Week and Served With a Side of Science: A Canberra Food Festival, we will open our doors on Saturday 14 August – with tours at 12pm, 1.15pm and 2.30pm. You will see how Goterra’s modular, automated waste infrastructure manages maggots to consume food waste, converting it into sustainable protein and…
MIE Lab – Maths Modelling Challenge – Meat Consumption Scenario
Planetary health is a relatively new branch of science focusing on safeguarding the health of human civilisation and the state of the natural systems on which we depend. This branch of science has put lower meat consumption at the heart of reducing humanity’s negative impact on the environment. Deforestation of land for livestock adds to the carbon footprint of a heavy meat diet and reduces available land that could produce far…
See inside Canberra\\\\\\\’s one and only insect farm – the future of waste management and protein production.
As part of National Science Week and Served With a Side of Science: A Canberra Food Festival, we will open our doors on Saturday 14th August – with tours at 12pm, 1.15pm and 2.30pm. You will see how Goterra’s modular, automated waste infrastructure manages maggots to consume food waste, converting it into sustainable protein and…
See inside Canberra\\\’s one and only insect farm – the future of waste management and protein production.
As part of National Science Week and Served With a Side of Science: A Canberra Food Festival, we will open our doors on Saturday 14th August – with tours at 12pm, 1.15pm and 2.30pm. You will see how Goterra’s modular, automated waste infrastructure manages maggots to consume food waste, converting it into sustainable protein and…
Environmental Conditions and the Growth of Plants
Students will explore a variety of conditions which influence the growth of plants.
Community Plant Based Recipe Competition
Creating a plant based community cookbook. As part of National Science Week celebrations John Curtin College of the Arts Roots and Shoots club in association with the Science, Food Technology and Media departments are running a competition to find our communities favourite plant based recipes. The 2021 theme Food: Different by Design can not only…