SustainableSTEAM is a collaborative education programme designed, developed and delivered by Cultivate Central and Green Loop Farm. As urban farmers, we believe that learning about growing food cultivates curiosity, creativity, collaboration, confidence, critical thinking, resilience, and environmental stewardship.
These experiences are suitable for primary levels and can help your school achieve learning objectives for:
You can choose one of three topics for the 60-minute session, each comes with its own unique kits. Kits include upcycled materials, allowing students to learn about eco-friendly practices while growing food.
The workshop includes sampling microgreens, learning how to grow food quickly and easily in small spaces. From soil to plate in 7-14 days. Growing microgreens gives students a chance to explore the lifecycle of microgreens and go home with an idea of how they can produce nutritious food at home.
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This workshop aims to introduce hydroponics as a form of farming to students, teaching them about the science behind it, as well as food security in Singapore.
Students will be creating their own DIY Krakty Bottle System, a simplified hydroponic system, with upcycled plastic bottles. They then will be able to bring a sapling home in their new handicraft to nurture, observe and eventually harvest the greens to enjoy.
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The workshop begins with students learning about the uses of local and regional rhizomes as aromatics, food, and for their healing properties. Students will use their rhizome kits to learn how to plant these rhizomes in a healthy potting mix.
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Strategic collaborations with talented, skilled, like minded, passionate practitioners and educators are at the core of what we do. These partnerships allow us to deliver novel educational experiences inspired by nature and permaculture making our workshops memorable, engaging, diverse and multidimensional.
Give your students an opportunity to be creative, to observe the world around them, experiment and let the garden inspire a sense of wonderment and empower them to explore beyond. Find below permaculture inspired workshops that go beyond gardening. We are constantly looking at broadening our offerings, so you can look forward to more workshops designed in collaboration with our partners.
How are the garden spaces at school an ecosystem? Explore and identify tiny creatures that live in everyday urban spaces such as your school with bug expert James Khoo.
Students discover how creatures of different classifications and characteristics fit into the web of life through this hands-on exploratory program. Students also walk away appreciating the role bugs and insects play in our environment.
Kotak Kamera is a kit imagined and designed by artist Isabelle Desjeux from l’Observatoire, in collaboration with Cultivate Central. It is a simple back to basic optical tool created by a magnifying lens, a screen and a dark space to create surreal reflections. The tool helps to understand the concepts of light, lenses, focus and distance.
Students build their own Kotak Kameras with the kits we provide allowing them to explore the school gardens and experience the magic created by their camera.
With These Two Hands creates learning opportunities for educators embarking on creating eco-positive and sustainable learning experiences together.
These sessions are conducted on site at our Goodman Community Farm at Goodman Arts Centre. With These Two Hands is a hands-on session that will enable your team of teachers to walk away informed and inspired to:
With These Two Hands comprises many themes. Each theme is covered in a session. You can choose one or more of the following:
Make compost in small spaces
Grow herbs
Build soil and create No Dig Raised Beds
We can also extend this programme to students aged 13 and above.
Working with Worms is a workshop about soil ecosystems, the world of worms and composting for early educators. This training will include a hands- on experience where teachers will assemble and create a worm hotel to kick start the process of composting in your school premises in a small way. With knowledge and tools in place, the teachers will be able to create a worm hotel and soil based ecosystem for children to access and engage with up close. This can be conducted at your premises.
