What if....?

What if…. families were able to source their food locally? ·       Where could you go to get your supplies? ·       How could students contribute? ·       Who else could be involved in your community? ·       What would need to change?

What if….. the food for a school celebration was grown by the community? ·       How could students and staff plan for this? ·       Who could be involved? ·       How would you share the responsibility and growing needs around the community? ·       What would need to be done?

What if….we used traditional methods to help nurture our bodies? ·       What health and wellbeing issues are important to our community? ·       Who could help us learn about these ways?

What if ….. people on the same street worked together to provide food for each other from within that street? ·       Who would do the work? ·       How would you pay for it? ·       Would there be rules? What would they be? Who would decide?

What if….people from your community could be employed to help get your daily food needs? ·       What would that look like? ·       How would they be paid? ·       Who would decide what sort of work they would do? ·       What methods would ensure healthy food?

What if…. there was a natural disaster and you and the people in your local area had to feed yourselves with the supplies that you had for an indefinite time? ·       Would you survive? ·       What would you eat? ·       What things might you learn to do differently in that time?

What if….we had to rely on food only produced in New Zealand? ·       What would we eat? ·       What would need to change in the way we live?

What if…… we had swap tables on street corners? ·       What would it take to make them work? ·       What sorts of things would be on the swap table? ·       What would happen if people took things without ‘swapping’ something?

What if…. no children in New Zealand ever went hungry? ·       What could you do to help make this happen? ·       How could a community work to support this?

What if… all children in New Zealand had practical experience of growing and cooking their own food? ·       How could knowledge and skills be developed? ·       Where could this be happening? ·       Who might be involved?

What if….. it was normal to barter food with our neighbours? ·       What knowledge would you need for this to be successful? ·       How would people know what was available?

What if… your school could enable families to halve their grocery bill? ·       In what ways could this happen? ·       Who could be involved?