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Kitchen Garden Foundation
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation has been set up to seek funding for and oversee the development of Kitchen Garden projects in primary schools across Australia. We are a charitable organisation that relies on the generosity, shared vision and commitment of schools, volunteers, philanthropic organisations, government, business and individuals.
Our Vision
Pleasurable food education is accessible to every Australian primary school via an experience-based kitchen garden program.
Our Mission
To work with government and partners to provide the inspiration, information, training, finance and support that ensures the provision of effective experience-based kitchen garden programs in primary schools across Australia.
Our aim is to pleasurably engage and encourage young Australians in growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing fresh, delicious food in the belief that such skills are essential to the development of lifelong joyful and healthy eating habits. Many young people have little sense of where their food comes from, and little experience of sharing a meal with others around a table.
The Foundation has developed the highly successful Kitchen Garden Program for all children in Years 3–6. Read more about the Program.
The Kitchen Garden Program aims to connect children with the land, to help them understand what it is to nurture the soil and the seeds they plant in it, to live sustainably, and to take responsibility for their own physical wellbeing. We have seen that children are more likely to experiment with foods they have grown or prepared themselves, and that lifelong eating habits are developed early. We have watched the confidence of children grow as they experiment with new flavours, or eat straight from the garden. We have witnessed their pleasure at passing around a plate of delicious food they have made themselves.
We believe this project has the potential affect the wellbeing not just of children, but of the land, of communities and of the nation.
