Where the Australian Curriculum Comes to Life
Curriculum-aligned. Hands-on excursion programs for Years 5–12 run on a 60-acre working regenerative farm in Woodford, SE Queensland.
Students don’t just hear about where food comes from. They harvest it, test it, cook it and eat it. They look at living soil under microscopes, build wicking beds, handle worm castings, walk conservation bushland and design regenerative systems of their own. Everything happens on a real working property with real farming systems, not in a classroom with a poster on the wall.
Our Program
We run four purpose-built programs. Every year level visits the same property and systems but the depth, questioning and curriculum alignment are tailored to your students.
Our Years 5-6 program is a full-day, sensory-led experience where students harvest, build, explore and design across the property's living systems. They leave understanding where food comes from and how nature does the heavy lifting.
Our Years 7-8 program puts measurement tools in students' hands. Microscopes, pH kits, refractometers, transect tapes. They collect real data from real systems and leave with questions they actually want to answer. One or two days.
Our Years 9-10 program treats the property as a field site. Students run chemistry panels, calculate greenhouse gas impacts, analyse farm economics and design a transition plan for a conventional farm. Every session produces data they can use back in the classroom. One or two days.
Our Years 11-12 program is built for QCE and VET. Students pick a research question, get out on the property to find the answers, run the numbers on a real farm business and put together a policy brief to the Queensland Minister for Agriculture backing it up with what they found. One or two days.
What Students Actually Do
This is a working farm, not a museum. Depending on their program, students will:
Harvest from the market garden and cook a meal from what they pick
Examine live soil biology under compound microscopes
Test water chemistry in the aquaponics system
Handle worm castings and brew compost extract
Walk timed-grazing paddocks and measure pasture recovery
Explore the 30-acre conservation reserve
Observe biochar production and the ribbon mixer in action
Compare nutrient density of farm produce vs supermarket equivalents
Design a regenerative food system for their own school
Full session-by-session schedules, learning outcomes and curriculum mapping provided on enquiry.
How to Book
1. Enquire: Complete the form or email us. Takes 2 minutes.
2. We respond: Within 2 business days you receive the full teacher guide and student journal for your year level, plus a quote. See exactly what your students will experience before you commit.
3. Confirm: Lock in your date and pay a deposit.
4. We handle the rest: Pre-visit teacher pack, preparation activities and site-specific risk assessment sent to you. Turn up and Learn.