YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO PLANT A SEED OF SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL IN THE MEMORY, HEARTS AND MINDS OF YOUR CHILDREN WHEN YOU GARDEN TOGETHER. FOOD IS LIFE. PASSING ON THE RESPECT FOR OUR LAND, AND KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO GROW FOOD WILL EMPOWER FUTURE GENERATIONS.

KIDS GARDEN INCURSIONS

Kitchen Garden education workshops are available for Kindergarten & Primary School aged children in the North-Eastern suburbs.

  • Paying respect to the land of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people

  • Recyling & single use plastics

  • Making compost & compost tea for fertilise the garden

  • The four seasons and Victorian climate

  • How to use a compass to find North

  • Planting seeds & seedlings

  • Growing & maintaining an edible garden

  • Harvesting food & making a salad

KIDS GARDEN CLUB

A fully facilitated kids gardening club can be established at your school. Run during the lunch break one day per week or fortnight, the children can join in as they please and get some soil under their fingernails.

Children will gain a sense of pride in their school garden as they learn how to grow their own food.

The garden club is a place where children can feel safe and included during their lunch break. It is especially good for reducing stress and bringing a sense of calm and responsibility.

STEM IN THE GARDEN

It all begins with an idea. A problem that can be solved with the collaboration of young minds. The young people of today will see Global Challenges of Climate Change and food shortages. Our pollinators, the bees, are surviving in gardens with no flowers. While bees and chickens alike, are suffering from disease that is decreasing their population.

The children of today must be STEM educated in order to become the leaders that solve problems. We have just the program to help them get started. Watch as our primary school incursions guide children to create solutions to real-World problems using Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.

SCIENCE

INSECT & ENVIRONMENT OBSERVATIONS WILL HELP CHILDREN IDENTIFY THE INVISIBLE CREATURES IN WHICH THEY SHARE THEIR LAND AND VEGGIE PATCH

Guided activities will get children thinking about these little buggy questions and help them to appreciate our connected ecosystem.

  • How many insects can you identify?

  • How many legs do they have?

  • Do they have wings or shells?

  • What do they eat?

  • What micro-habitat do they live in?

  • Will they want to live in the insect hotel?

  • How do they benefit your garden?

  • What plants should we plant for them?

TECHNOLOGY

GET TECH-SAVVY BY USING IPAD APPLICATIONS TO MEASURE, ORIENTATE AND DESIGN

Applications like Compass and Measure are easy to use and allow children to understand distance and orientation when designing a veggie garden. Older kids may be interested in using visual design applications, like SketchUp, to create designs for their own home garden and surprise their parents with a printout.

ENGNEERING

USE TOOLS AND MATERIALS TO BUILD REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS

  • BUG & BEE HOTELS

  • PEA & TOMATO TEE-PEE

MATH

DESIGNING A GARDEN IS ALL ABOUT PLANT SPACING, MEASURING DISTANCE, VOLUME OF SOIL AND COMPOST TO SOIL RATIOS IN PARTS.

Using rulers, Compass and Measure apps, and measuring tape, children will measure distance, create planting plans using plant spacing rules, and calculate volume of soil and compost needed for each garden bed.