Field-trips

1. Find someone nearby with a garden and ask them to show you some types of plant you can ask for seeds/or starters to grow at home. 2. Make an appointment and bring your tools 3. With the direction from the gardener, plant the seeds or starters into your pots 4. Observe the growth of plants, do not forget to water, harvest on time and enjoy the food you have from them with gratitude

1. Is this your first experience of planting? If not, when was that? 2. How do you feel about growing your food and enjoy the results? 3. Have you learnt anything new? 4. How is this type of planting sustainable?

How to submit results

Ask participants to take a photo of the plants they grow and submit a short sharing about this experience.

Evaluation

Give feedbacks, discussion and comments to participants who join the experience.

With the topic of gardening, trainers can choose from many options of field-trip such as: local organic garden, community garden, a rooftop garden of balcony garden of an urban family. You can choose the location based on: (1) Objective of the field-trip (2) Resources available: time, human, budget

Following is a field-trip plan to an organic farm for students in Hanoi. • Duration: half a day • Objective: - Students understand what is organic vegetable and the principles of an organic farm. - Students can practice planting and making some products commonly used in the farm such as compost, Effective microorganism EM, insect rebellions. - Students have practical experience with farming