As a K-13 school we will host a series of STEM activities during Science Week to cultivate engagement and grow student aspiration in agriculture as we explore food sciences and sustainable food futures. Our Year 7 and 8 hydroponic farmers will use scientific understandings of plant science to design, build and test different hydroponic setups…
Topic: Agriculture
Fight Food Waste Forever – Reducing Food Waste with Lindsay Miles
Did you know that almost 40% of the average household bin is food waste? Want to reduce waste in your kitchen? Learn some tried and tested truths from waste guru Lindsay Miles. This starts with the way we shop and the things we buy, how we store food at home and what we do with…
Fight Food Waste Forever – Reducing Food Waste with Lindsay Miles
Did you know that almost 40% of the average household bin is food waste? Want to reduce waste in your kitchen? Learn some tried and tested truths from waste guru Lindsay Miles. This starts with the way we shop and the things we buy, how we store food at home and what we do with…
Fight Food Waste Forever – Composting, Bokashi and Your Garden with Amy Warne
Do you want to compost like a pro and make your own fertiliser? Join Amy Warne, an avid gardener and compost guru. Bokashi composting is a process of fermentation that quickly and easily converts food waste into highly productive compost. It is rapidly becoming many gardeners favoured approach to building healthy and productive soils. You will learn…
Fight Food Waste Forever – Composting, Bokashi and Your Garden with Amy Warne
Do you want to compost like a pro and make your own fertiliser? Join Amy Warne, an avid gardener and compost guru. Bokashi composting is a process of fermentation that quickly and easily converts food waste into highly productive compost. It is rapidly becoming many gardeners favoured approach to building healthy and productive soils. You will learn…
Mudgeeraba Special School Celebrating National Science Week
All students at Mudgeeraba Special School will engage in rotational activities during science week around food- fruit and vegetables with their cohort in the assembly area. Outcomes can be incorporated across Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics from our Science Week Rotations. Within the Science Key Learning Area students will be engaging in observation skills, recording…
Pruning & Garden Hygiene for Fruit Fly Management
Over the past three fruit seasons Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) has spread rapidly across Wycheproof and district, destroying crops in home gardens. With spring just around the corner, adult fruit flies will soon emerge from shelter looking for food. Now is a vital time to take action to reduce the population of fruit fly not only…
Indigenous Food and Agriculture
Join us to yarn about native foods and Indigenous farmers — everything from practising agriculture as a traditional custodian, growing bush foods and making sure they’re safe to eat, preparing amazing meals and getting Australian native foods to market. Speakers: Luke Williams is a proud Gumbaynggirr descendent, currently completing his PhD in the School of Health…
That’s Elementary, My Dear: Satellites that detect environmental change
Have you ever heard the saying It’s hard to see the forest for the trees? Sometimes a little distance is what we need. We can learn a lot about Earth by observing it from a distance. Surprisingly, we can even learn a lot about what’s happening just on the surface of Earth. Join UNSW Sydney Professor of…
Research at the Arboretum – Forest Walk
Since opening in 2013, the Arboretum has partnered with Universities, citizen science groups and volunteers to undertake studies from tree growth, climate change research to survey work. The Australian National University research forests provide undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to study trees, soils and climate using cutting edge technology in a dedicated and unique…