Healthy Kids Kitchen Gardens
Healthy Kids Association is currently completing work on kitchen gardens. Members will receive a feature on kitchen gardens in the October 2010 Members Magazine. If you have any specific questions about establishing a kitchen garden please email info@healthy-kids.com.au or call 02 9876 1300 or 1300 724 850 for schools outside of Sydney. We can email you a fact sheet.
Is your school looking for funding for a school garden?
There are current grant opportunities (up to $5,000.00) for public schools and TAFE under the ‘teachers environment fund’. Funding is offered in February and August. For more information visit www.teacherscreditunion.com.au/envirofund
Please pass this information onto others who may be interested.
KidsGrow KidsCook
There has been a resurgence of interest in kitchen gardens and school gardens and the contribution they can make to increasing children’s nutritional literacy. School children being involved with growing, harvesting and cooking plants help connect them to people in the community who work with agriculture, horticulture and cooking. This can assist in encouraging children to adopt healthy eating behaviours for better health and learning.
The 12 month project seeks to pilot a range of school kitchen garden models in regional schools in GSAHS that do not currently receive boosted funding via Commonwealth grants and do not currently have a kitchen garden. There may be a food garden but it may need further development to become a kitchen garden that connects the gardening experience to the school curriculum.
Many schools have the interest but do not have the resources to seek funding to implement the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program. This pilot will develop and test simpler, affordable, less restrictive models that can be implemented in primary schools of varying sizes across NSW. It will have resources and information to support schools to explore growing and simple cooking in a non-confronting and supported way.
Students from Towamba Public School grow and cook.
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