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The globally-recognised Kitchen Garden Program for Primary Schools is a fun, hands-on learning program delivering curriculum integration and a focus on student health, wellbeing, collaboration and leadership.

At the heart of the Kitchen Garden Program is pleasurable food education, which inspires children and young people to understand and connect with fresh, seasonal, delicious food through fun, hands-on learning in the kitchen and garden. This approach empowers students to develop practical skills, an appreciation of seasonal produce and a positive, confident and healthy relationship with food — for life.

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Benefits of the Kitchen Garden Program

The Kitchen Garden Program offers students: 

  • lifelong practical skills
  • opportunities to experience wellbeing and connectedness
  • alternate ways of learning for increased engagement
  • investigations into sustainability and food security. 

For schools and educators the program provides: 

  • easy-to-access curriculum-integrated materials adaptable to any school environment 
  • personalised support and guidance from our Support Team, five days a week
  • professional development opportunities, both online and face-to-face
  • inspiration and networking via our national community of educators
  • increased community and social inclusion.   

 

Complete online form to join today

Start up or invigorate your Kitchen Garden Program with the primary membership package including the full suite of printed educational resources, professional development and more. Equip your educators with curriculum-linked learning for primary school integration. 

Start-up Membership Package (two-years)

What's included?

  • Professional Development webinar: Kitchen Garden Ready  — Get going, get growing! (two places)  

  • Welcome call from the Kitchen Garden Team

Your welcome box includes:  

  • Getting Started: An educator's guidebook to establishing the Kitchen Garden Program 

  • Syllabus book collection: Lesson plans to run your Kitchen Garden Program from F-6 (six books)  

  • Literacy and Numeracy in the Kitchen and Garden: A handbook of ideas with links to learning  

  • A Kitchen Garden Program educator apron

​​​​​​​Ongoing membership support  

  • Personalised support via phone, email and video calls with the Kitchen Garden Team 

  • 24/7 access to the Shared Table, our online kitchen garden resource library and community hub  

  • Monthly newsletter packed with shortcuts to planning kitchen garden classes  

  • Professional Development – topical webinars (unlimited places) and in-person training (available at an additional cost) 

  • Networking opportunities, peer engagement and inspiration from our national community of educators  

  • Plus! Membership to The Diggers Club  

Price: $1650

2-year renewal: $440

Complete online form to join today

Hungry to get started? 

Talk to us to find out how easy it is to adapt the Kitchen Garden Program to any school setting. Contact our Support Team on 13000 SAKGF (13000 72543) or membership@kitchengardenfoundation.org.au, or attend an upcoming info session.

Become a member today and join a community of primary schools teaching young people how to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal, delicious food. 

ACER Wellbeing Program Guide Selection

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program has met the requirements for inclusion on the ACER Wellbeing Program Guide, Australia’s most comprehensive wellbeing programs guide for schools.




Kitchen Garden Support Line 13000 SAKGF (13000 72543)

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation would not be possible without our supporters. We rely entirely on the generosity, shared vision and commitment of schools and early childhood services, volunteers, philanthropic organisations, government, business and individuals.

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as traditional owners of the land on which we live and work, and we pay our respects to their elders, both past and present.

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