FAQs

1 

How does The Forest Forager Initiative (FFI) enrich a class curriculum?

• FFI reconnects children with our Ancestral Mother – the Earth.

• Whether your school program is in an urban, suburban or rural area, NATURE IS EVERYWHERE and so FFI projects fit ANYWHERE.

• Using Are We Really What We Eat (AWRWWE) episode material as a starting point, all FFI projects are interactive and vary widely to enhance differing class goals and curricula.

• Examples of FFI project types: **

• Guest speaker series

• Interdisciplinary projects

• Creating food gardens (in collaboration with a community group)

• Climate Justice

• ** FFI Teacher’s Guide and AWRWWE episodes offer many more project ideas

• Within each project, you have great latitude in length, scope and activities employed. Each project refers to an AWRWWE episode, whether directly from the video interview itself or from the general interview topic.

• Projects are free-ranging and flexible:

• Students can transform a foraged weed into a pesto or healing salve;

• Collect a variety of insects on a walk in the park, schoolyard or woods and examine the differences in their body composition under a magnifying glass;

• Ambitiously create and work with a mini pollinator paradise for the length of a school year.

• Create a dance, movement sequence, video, or photographic essay.