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Global warming and growing our own food
- 1. Our Very own vegetable patch
- 3. We need the earth to be hot and cold • The polar bear needs ice to hunt it’s food • The tiger needs the rainforest to hunt
- 4. Why is the planet warming? • Different gases go into air that creates a blanket around the world • With more of these gases, the blanket gets thicker • Now the blanket is too thick, so more heat is staying in the earth and not going into space. • What makes these gases?
- 5. How Far Does Your Food Travel?
- 6. •The Apple: South Africa - over 6000 miles 10x UK •The Tomato: Spain – over 1000 miles •The Lemon: Chile – 7500 miles 12.5x UK • •We could get all of these foods right here in the UK 600 miles How Many UKs?
- 7. • Means do we have enough food to support all of the UK now and in the future? • World population 7 billion now and is growing: 9 billion in 40 years • If we import from other countries it means, they don’t have as much food. • They have to buy expensive food from other countries, as we are buying their food. Are they food secure? • We need more sustainable practices Food Security
- 8. Waste • We waste 7.2 million tonnes food and drink per year • Where do you put the food you don’t want? • Waste packaging from supermarkets • If we grow our own we don’t need any packaging • If we grow our own we can reuse the waste to grow more! • COMPOSTING
- 9. Let’s Eat Seasonal British Foods
- 10. Benefits of eating seasonally • Fresher, more nutritious food • Less pollution, means helping to stop global warming – no food miles/no fertilisers • Less waste: We use the waste to grow more! • No Packaging • Food security – both for us and other countries • Using our own land – don’t need to destroy animals homes • Save money / Make money • Fun!
- 11. Case Studies Orford Primary School, Suffolk Made £200 last winter and selling regularly to local pub. Used all their own vegetables for Christmas dinner Milton Church of England School, Cambridgeshire In 6 months the school had grown and donated £500 worth of food Kedington Primary School,
- 12. Let’s Grow! Our Aims • To Create vegetable patch • Successfully grow 5 different types of vegetables • Compost our own vegetable waste • Use our own vegetables for our School dinners
- 13. How To Grow: Life Cycle of a carrot • Plant the seed • Water regularly • Watch it grow • Harvest the Carrot • Eat the Carrot • Compost
- 14. From left-overs to lunch • Use the ends of the Spring Onion – submerge in warm water just the top sticking out • Place on a sunny windowsill • After 5 days the spring onion will have sprouted again • Take a pot and fill with soil • Plant the onion in the soil with the white part just below the soil • Water well and place on a windowsill • Keep watering • Watch it grow
- 15. Lets Make the Vegetable Patch • Find a suitable area for the patch, measure out beds • Mix the soil with compost and fertilisers and spread evenly the around the area • Measure out the area for each vegetable • Plant the seeds/seedlings • Water and watch the vegetables grow
- 16. • Plastic Bottle Greenhouse • A pond to encourage frogs and toads • Hold a farmers market to make money for the • school • Make a scarecrow • Make a herb garden Future Projects
- 17. Picture References • Pic references • http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/images/?CTT=97 - All images with no ref • http://miracle-kids.net/en/basic/basic01-1.html - global warming diagram • http://jogministries.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/four_seasons.jpg - 4 seasons • http://www.globalcool.org/lifestyle/earth-day/attachment/the-national-trusts-sowing-squad school veg • http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/articles/sowing-from-seed-and-planting-outdoor-containers - plant the seed • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-13888889 Milton Primary • http://apps.rhs.org.uk/schoolgardening/teachershome/casestudies/level1/primaryschools/orfordprimaryschool.aspa Orford primary school pic • http://seedtofeedme.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/how-to-make-compost.html - compost
Notes de l'éditeur
- Of all the food we get from other countries we waste 7.2 billion tonnes, that’s one whole chicken dinner a week per household If you go to the supermarket to buy some apples… why is there plastic? Plastic contributes to CO2 emissions in its production and cannot easily be recycled. Why are we buying food from countries that we can make here? We can use the rest of the vegetables to compost
- All of the food that we saw traveling all over the world can actually be grown right here. We have to eat some food at certain times of the year. What needs warmth? What can we eat in the winter?
- Fresher produce – does not have to travel anywhere before it is cooked so tastes better Reduced CO2 emissions – No food miles/ No fertilisers Less waste/ reusable waste – No packaging, Reuse scraps of vegetables to grow new or compost to create fertiliser for vegetable garden Food Security – for us and for the countries where we import the food from Utilising land – less land take as the garden is already there – means less deforestation and less habitat loss Save Money/ make money – don’t need to buy from supermarkets, could sell our veg to other businesses Supporting local businesses – either buying the food directly from the farmers, or selling our own food to the local establishments.