Chapter 10 Food and Farming

Fig 10.1 Insects are crucial to biodiversity and sustainable farming

By Mourice Flesier – Own work, CC By -SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107907072. Photos: Harvesting: Mourice Flesier, Wikimedia Commons Bee: Ingrid Schudel.

Featured websites 

Website 10.1 Reasons to grow calendula
Seven reasons to grow calendula explained in simple language with supporting photographs.
https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/7-reasons-to-grow-calendula/

Website 10.2 How to make a wormery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ordM5TWyFLw

Website 10.3  Pollinated foods
An online cookbook that explores new recipes featuring ingredients that rely on pollination services.
https://www.pollinator.org/pollinated-food

Website 10.4 World bee day
The United Nations Food and Agriculture site which supports world bee day and examines the importance of bees in food and agriculture.
http://www.fao.org/3/i9527en/i9527en.pdf

Website 10. 5 Waggle dance
A BBC film that explains how bees communicate information about the distance and direction of nectar through a precisely choreographed dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Q8FfyLLso&t=6ss

Website 10.6 Honeyguide’s Revenge
The text and pictures of the Zulu folktale about a greedy young man who fails to appreciate the help he has received from the honeyguide bird.
https://africanstorybook.org/reader.php?id=2099

Website 10.7 Come On In to Coobana 
How Fairtrade bananas are grown and produced in Panama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0YXIOxmUGw

Picture books

Lilly’s Garden of India by Jeremy Smith (Ticktock Media 2003). 
A story about the properties of different plants and flowers and their place in Indian culture, which includes details of how to grow your own marigolds.

Other resources

Fairtrade
A series of short, upbeat films about fair trade and climate change with portraits of people who live and work on co-operatives.
https://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/teaching-resources/films#page-1

Food waste
A focus on food wastage from the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation suitable for older children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoCVrkcaH6Q

Images of nature
This website showcases a selection of beautiful photographs which focus especially on the natural world and shapes and patterns in nature.
https://attwebdesign.wixsite.com/isphotography