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Are you an Adelaide teacher looking for a school excursion? We'll show your students where their food comes from in our paddock to plate learning experience.
Land to Lunchbox
Paddock to plate learning
With over 150 different South Australian primary and secondary schools visiting each year we've proudly become Adelaide's go to for on-farm paddock to plate school excursions! Our highly developed Land to Lunchbox program show kids where food comes from!
Our excursions are year-level specific and curriculum-linked, giving students hands-on, real world experience learning that aligns with the South Australian Curriculum showing them where their food comes from - no matter what their age.
Students explore how apples are grown and gain a real world understanding of how commercial farm businesses operate. Experiences from seeing machinery demonstrations to understanding the significance of seasons & weather to learning our interesting entrepreneurial journey show students first hand the Food & Fibre curriculum connection. Every student goes home with a bag of apples and enjoys an apple juice in the orchard!
Teachers love how easy it is to organise, with all curriculum-linked pre and post excursion resources, risk assessments, and workbooks provided.
We also specialise in secondary school and SACE stage 1 & 2 subjects - Business & Innovation, Food and Hospitality and Agriculture.
Our OSHC Vacation Care excursions offer a simplified version of our school tours with a bigger focus on farm games and farm activities!
Pick Your Student's Year Level
PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAM
Our Primary School On-Farm Excursions are age appropriate and year level specific! All content is curriculum linked which focuses on showing children where their food comes from and how it gets from the tree to the supermarket - and everything in between! For a detailed overview head to our Primary School Excursions page!
INCLUSIONS:
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2kg apples for each student to take home
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Apple juice
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Pre & post year-level specific teaching resources
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Excursion day workbook
DURATION & PRICING:
4hrs
10am - 2pm
$20 per child
POMOLOGIST IN TRAINING
As soon as the students arrive to the orchard they become 'Pomologists in Training'. They proudly don their vest and start learning everything there is to growing apples. Once the day is complete - they are become qualified and receive a certificate to come back to the orchard to show their family their new knowledge!
School Excursion Information
This was the easiest excursion I've ever organised - everything was provided! - Sandra, Year 3 teacher
land to lunchbox
Topics included in the excursion..
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entrepreneurship
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business
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machinery and how it has evolved over time
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modernisation of orchard practices
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lifecycle of an apple to how it ends up at the supermarket
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polination
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tree pruning demonstrations
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farm machinery demonstrations
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apple picking (during autumn months)
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water and irrigation management
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how we look after our soil
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bushfire prevention and management on an orchard
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the work done on the farm explained in conjunction with the different seasons
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sustainable practices we’ve embraced on our farm
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how the trees are grown for commercial production
Get exploring
The extra JUICY bits..
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As we are both nurses, we have police checks, working with children checks, public liability insurance and mandatory reporting certifications.
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We have our own toilets, but unfortunately due to council regulations we do not have disabled toilets
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There are many places and spaces you can enjoy your BYO lunch in the orchard
