FOOD is not simply about shopping, as pupils involved in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation program will attest.
Participating schools like Sunshine North deliver regular kitchen and garden classes, building up skills and learning that infiltrates the whole curriculum.
The program is aimed at giving pupils like Shylah, Tracy, Abdi and Jayden (pictured) positive food experiences to form lifelong healthy eating habits. In Brimbank, St Albans Meadows PS has also signed up.
Sunshine North’s Lynette Hannon said gardening was well and truly “embedded in what we do at school”.
Sunshine North enrolled in the garden program after receiving a grant in 2007 – now the school has its own orchard and chook pen, a butterfly display and extensive vegie patch.
