Get kids and schools involved
Get kids growing plants like Ice Cream Bean, Peanut Butter Plant, Miracle Fruit, Venus Fly Trap, Mimosa
anything that gets them going
See this pilot programme
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Go for your life – Kitchen Garden Project with Stephanie Alexander
* What are the Go for your life Kitchen Garden Project Grants?
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Go for your life - Kitchen Garden Project - Financial - School Management - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
https://secure.kitchengardenfoundati...onations.shtml
Victorian Association for Environmental Education
Gardening Australia - Fact Sheet: School Kitchen Garden
Gardening Australia - Video
Kitchen garden funding to go national - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Some of the multicultural gardens/cooking have been especially brilliant
Stephanie Alexander is one of the top ten chefs in Australia.
I know years ago she used to pay kids 10c per snail for her very famous Victorian Restaurant.
All schools should have an interdisciplinary science/biology/chemistry/history/ maths/ English-folklore-debating-Shakespeare ( a great gardener)/ecology/politics?/cooking/business studies/economics//agriculture/ethics, conservation self reliance etc
Gardening Department(In fact-what else do you need?)
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There are over 20 of these programs running in schools around Victoria and the plan is to have nearly 200 running in schools Australia-wide by 2012. It proves that there’s nothing better - from garden to the stomach
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This should be adequately resourced with Nursery propagation and gardening space
A garden is just a place where people learn about plants.-MA
