By Sarah Moore | Development Director
The Leuser Nature School continues to engage local children to learn to care about nature and biodiversity. The thirty children from neighbouring villages have been busy tending the permaculture plots which border the school grounds.
Permaculture is a regenerative form of agriculture which promotes natural balance and natural inputs so that nature and biodiversity can thrive alongside the crops being grown. The school children have planted a variety of plants outside their classrooms including rosella bushes. Rosella is a flower related to hibiscus, the flower heads are picked and dried and made into a tea which the children can drink at break times. The tea is an amazing blue colour and high in vitamin C.
The classes also planted watermelons in the larger vegetable patch and had a lot of fun harvesting these together. As well as keeping some to eat, the watermelons will be sold in the market to generate an income for the school.
Teaching the children how to plant and tend their crops, and how to use them for nutrition and for income are key tools for learning. And of course the central message about how to grow crops in harmony with nature helps to connect them with their land and learn to care for it in a way which supports wildlife and provides benefits for people too.
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