About the Foundation
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation provides the inspiration, information, professional development and support for educators to deliver pleasurable food education to children and young people in Australia.
Pleasurable food education is a fun, hands-on approach to teaching children and young people about fresh, seasonal, delicious food so they form positive food habits for life.
Delivered through a kitchen garden program, pleasurable food education has an array of health, wellbeing, education and community benefits.
Celebrating 20 Memorable Years
For 20 years, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation has supported millions of children with our life-changing Kitchen Garden Program.
There have been many memorable moments over this time, and we are proud of the impact Stephanie’s vision has had in enabling better health, wellbeing, educational, and sustainability outcomes for children and young people across Australia.
Adapting to regional contexts
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation provides the inspiration, information, professional development and support for educators to deliver pleasurable food education to children and young people in Australia.
Pleasurable food education is a fun, hands-on approach to teaching children and young people about fresh, seasonal, delicious food so they form positive food habits for life.
Delivered through a kitchen garden program, pleasurable food education has an array of health, wellbeing, education and community benefits.
Adapting to regional contexts
We received over 1400 applications, 50% of which came from the early childhood sector. The applications revealed some beautiful stories. Our team meticulously selected the winning applications to ensure a fair representation of every state, territory, and sector type, with a balanced distribution across regional, remote, and metropolitan areas.
Each winner has been awarded $1500 to set up up or expand their cooking or gardening facilities, along with a two-year membership to the Kitchen Garden Program.
65%
67% of parents said that their child’s experience in Kitchen Garden Program classes supported other areas of their learning or life skills
97%
97% of students feel excited to go to school on Kitchen Garden Program day
87%
87% of parents notice a change in their child’s food choice, knowledge or behaviour as a result of the Kitchen Garden Program
Program Fundamentals
There are 10 Kitchen Garden Program fundamentals for schools and early childhood services. These program fundamentals are designed to support you in implementing your Kitchen Garden Program to ensure your educators, staff, children, students, and the community get the most out of the program and your membership benefits.
“I strongly believe if all children in Australia were able to discover the wonder of growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing, we would achieve meaningful change in health, wellbeing, education, sustainability, community connections and cultural understanding.”
Stephanie Alexander AO, Founder
Grow, harvest, prepare and share!
Keen to dig in?
Experience the boundless impact of the Kitchen Garden Program, by reading our Impact report, or connecting with our Support Team for customised advice to get the program up and running with your class.
Contact us on 13000 SAKGF (1300 072 543) or support@kitchengardenfoundation.org.au.
Start Small, dream big
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation provides the inspiration, information, professional development and support for educators to deliver pleasurable food education to children and young people in Australia.
Pleasurable food education is a fun, hands-on approach to teaching children and young people about fresh, seasonal, delicious food so they form positive food habits for life.
Delivered through a kitchen garden program, pleasurable food education has an array of health, wellbeing, education and community benefits.
Adapting to regional contexts
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation provides the inspiration, information, professional development and support for educators to deliver pleasurable food education to children and young people in Australia.
Pleasurable food education is a fun, hands-on approach to teaching children and young people about fresh, seasonal, delicious food so they form positive food habits for life.
Delivered through a kitchen garden program, pleasurable food education has an array of health, wellbeing, education and community benefits.
Adapting to regional contexts
We received over 1400 applications, 50% of which came from the early childhood sector. The applications revealed some beautiful stories. Our team meticulously selected the winning applications to ensure a fair representation of every state, territory, and sector type, with a balanced distribution across regional, remote, and metropolitan areas.
Each winner has been awarded $1500 to set up up or expand their cooking or gardening facilities, along with a two-year membership to the Kitchen Garden Program.
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