I was recently successful with obtaining a Coles Junior Landcare grant to expand our kitchen garden.

My strategy was to target the requested funding at a particular aspect of the kitchen garden - in this case "Sheltering the Edible Classroom" from damaging winds (and sun), rather than just a bland request to build beds and erect trellis. I also tried to build a bit of a narrative with what has come before and how the new funding will build on that. Lastly, it probably helps to have the "co-inve… Continue

Linking up with your local seed savers group is a great way to access a wide variety of locally adapted open-pollinated seed varieties while also taking part in the movement to conserve our food heritage by preserving seed diversity. This page includes email contacts for local groups Australia wide.

The Australian Association for Environmental Education have a useful list of school garden resources on their website. You can download the pdf here.

Hi,

We are currently developing a kitchen garden at Northcote Primary School in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne. I'd like to share our experiences to date and future plans and chronicle the garden's development over the coming seasons. Any feedback, advice or suggestions would be great!

A parent volunteer gardening group was established in 2005 and the vegetable garden was built in 2006, consisting of three raised beds (2x1m) for annual vegetables, compost and worm bins, and a mains ta… Continue

is what I want to make but by the time everyone has pinched a couple there's never enough left - have had them sprinkled on ice-cream and in a fruit salad - must be nearly dinner time