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Get Your Hands Dirty

New resource to help teachers consider the issues involved in growing plants, or caring for animal, in schools

Written by experienced teachers this free resource pack and its downloadable web-based materials gives you ideas, practical advice, educational reasons, and case studies to help you grow plants or keep animals in your school grounds.

The free resource box, an accompanying booklet demonstrating the educational and school benefits, and dividers, is available by sending an email with your full contact details to:

ian@schoolfarms.org.uk

The resources are available as downloadable pdf files from this page.

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Contents for Get Your Hands Dirty
Section 1: Gardening without land
Section 2: Growing in a small area of land
Section 3: Simple horticultural activities & small animal care
Section 4: Growing in a heated greenhouse & rearing poultry
Section 5: Enterprise horticulture & more sophisticated animal care
Section 6: Rearing alpaca, cattle and pigs
Section 7: Small-scale farm enterprises
Glossary
Bibliography
Support organisations
Checklist
Information sheet: animal welfare & health
Information sheet: Funding & fundraising
Information sheet: Farm registration & animal movement
Section 2 Activity: Producing vegetables
Section 5 Case study: Skills for working life
Section 6 Case study: Keeping Alpaca
Information Pack
Section 5 Case Study: Keeping Kune-Kune pigs in a Primary schools setting
Section 3 Case study - Keeping rabbits in a primary setting
Section 2 Case Study: Wild Spaces and Allotments
Section 3 Case Study: Keeping Guinea Pigs

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