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Join the Kitchen Garden Program - national grants open May 2011
21-03-2011Growing, harvesting, preparing, sharing - growing a food revolution from the ground up!
Right now, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program is changing the way primary school children approach and think about food.
All around the country, over 22,500 children are enthusiastically getting their hands dirty and learning how to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh seasonal food.
Kitchen Garden Schools commit to a dynamic and innovative program that sees kitchen and garden classes run weekly, enabling skills-based learning that extends across the entire school curriculum.
The Kitchen Garden Program:
- Shows children how to grow their own produce and create delicious meals from their fresh harvest
- Emphasises the importance of teamwork, project work and sharing experiences
- Underscores the academic curriculum with practical, experience-based learning in the kitchen and garden
- Helps engage disengaged learners and gives students as sense of pride
- Provides a focus and sense of connection in the wider school community
- Is the reason many children can't wait to get to school - they love it!
Your school can join the kitchen garden community too!
What you can do to bring the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program into your school:
- Explore the Kitchen Garden Foundation website to learn more about the Program
- Learn how national funding opportunities can benefit your school
- Register your interest to receive all the information you need to know about applying for a grant, including contact details of a helpful member of the Kitchen Garden Foundation staff.
Parents are encouraged to register interest on behalf of their child's school.
It's not too early to begin bringing the enormous lifelong benefits of the Kitchen Garden Program to your children and their school community. For more information simply register your interest on the Foundation website.
Please pass this link on to others you think could benefit from the Kitchen Garden Program.
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program is funded by the Australian Government.
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