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25.01.2022 Need lunchbox inspo? With children and young people returning to school around Australia, we’re sharing tips for packing more calcium-rich dairy foods into lunchboxes.

23.01.2022 Broadly-speaking, we’re a broad-minded bunch at the Foundation but we must admit that broad beans are one of our fava-rite legumes! They’re the taste of Spring and our online community platform, the Shared Table, is positively bursting with them. Here are some highlights: Moonah Primary School lunchtime garden visitors enjoyed snacking on some early broad beans before harvesting began. Wonder how many made it to the kitchen?! The tiny gardeners at Gladys Smith Early Lea...rning Centre had fun podding and chatting. Mount Rogers Primary School students harvested a big bucket of broadies. Jordan River Learning Federation garden has a beautiful, lush broad bean crop. Happy harvesters from Littlehampton Primary School picked over 7kg of broad beans from their patch and made a delicious broad bean salad garnished with edible blooms. Looking for broad bean recipe inspo? Members will find resources for Cannelloni with Ricotta and Broad Bean filling, and Broad Bean dip, on the Shared Table. See more

22.01.2022 Happy 80th birthday Stephanie Alexander! Your team at the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation wish you a garden full of happiness and a kitchen full of love. Our CEO Josephene Duffy has this to say: Happy birthday Stephanie. You are our visionary, standard setter and flag bearer, and we salute you and wish you all the very best of everything on this very special day. We all look forward to sharing a table with you in the very near future. We asked some of Stephanie’s dearest friends and peers to share their special stories and birthday wishes. Click on the link, pour yourself a cuppa, and enjoy these insights into Stephanie’s incredible career and enduring friendships. www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/news (select 'load more news items' to see all the messages).

21.01.2022 We love these kitchen garden-inspired mosaic tiles! Created by students at Cobargo Public School, these mini art pieces will be used as steppingstones or wall art. So much variety! Great job team. Mosaicking is a fun activity that ticks lots of boxes: Great for keeping social distancing guidelines in mind sections of a mosaic mural can be created by small groups or individual students. Promotes self-expression, fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Good st...arting point for exploring other cultures e.g. Middle Eastern mosques, Mediterranean tiles and Catalan artist Antoni Gaudí. Wonderful opportunity to link art to your kitchen garden program. We’ve admired lots of lovely mosaic work in schools around Australia, including a magnificent pizza oven! Members will find our resource for building a beautiful mosaic birdbath on the Shared Table. See more

19.01.2022 A spring pizza theme heralded the launch of our Kitchen Garden Program for Secondary Years! Pilot schools tucked into student-made pizzas at a virtual shared table, and the team from our project partner, AstraZeneca Australia, got hands-on with a pizza dough-making webinar hosted by our very own Sam. Even SAKGF staff whipped up ‘pizzas of the imagination’ at home (watch this space). Hit the link to read our news story about the launch of the Kitchen Garden Program for Secon...dary Years bit.ly/SecondaryYearsProgramLaunch Thanks to the following schools for participating, and for sharing their spring pizza pics! Liverpool Girls High School Clonard College Geelong Cobden Technical School Elwood College Heywood & District Secondary College Orange High School, Orange NSW DEC St Bernard's College Essendon See more

19.01.2022 Happy Diwali! The five-day festival of lights, also known as Deepawali (deep means ‘light’ and avali ‘a row’) celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains around the world celebrates new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil, and light over darkness. This stunning fruit and vegetable rangoli was created to mark the launch of Celebrate India inc.'s 2020 Diwali festival at Fed Square in Melbourne.

17.01.2022 Stephanie Alexander's amazing fattoush salad, with oven-crisped pita bread and naturally-sweet Perino tomatoes, is a winner. Cook along with Stephanie in this video we created with our community partner Coles. Grab a punnet of Perino this weekend 5 cents from every punnet* sold before next Tuesday (16 Feb) will be donated to the Kitchen Garden Foundation. *Up to $100k.

16.01.2022 Some of Stephanie Alexander’s protégés share their memories on working with her, and their thoughts on her incredible legacy.

15.01.2022 Hannam Vale Public School have surplus produce. Off to the local shop it goes! The happy harvesters plucked 13 savoy cabbages and large bunches of flowers, rhubarb, bloomsdale spinach and spring onions. Great job team!

14.01.2022 The National Pandemic Gardening Survey Report has been released! This year over 9,000 Australian gardeners shared what edible gardening meant to them during COVID-19. At a time of great global uncertainty, growing food was a source of solace, peace, and healing; it meant safe, healthy and fresh food for family and friends; and it brought people together at a time of enforced social distancing. As Australia plans its way forward, this publication underscores that food growing... must be central to our recovery, says Sustain: The Australian Food Network. The report lays out an action agenda to create more edible towns and cities in Australia. As part of a collective of organisations (see below) with a shared understanding that growing food can be a force for good in society, we fully support these findings. Urban Agriculture Forum Community Gardens Australia Yerrabingin 3000acres Collingwood Children's Farm Sustainable Gardening Australia Pocket City Farms www.sustain.org.au/projects/pandemic-gardening-survey-report See more

14.01.2022 This is literally a salad wall! The vertical garden at Kingswood PS SAKG is entirely edible and only 6 weeks old. Students shared their first harvest of lettuce and herbs with lucky staff members for their lunch.

11.01.2022 Hello beautiful! Oh how we love the sight of freshly-harvested garlic. Thanks for sharing Gorokan Public School.

11.01.2022 Moonah Primary School have Scarlet Runner beans galore. These beauties grew from roots left in the ground last summer. Scarlet Runner beans are super easy to grow, vigorous climbers, and very productive! If that's not enough excitement, they're stunning too vibrant green pods with crimson beans inside, surrounded by gorgeous pops of bright red from their flowers. #natureisamazing

10.01.2022 What’s the go with mangos? Are they very thirsty? Do they take long to grow? Students from Mount Molloy Primary School supplied us with some magnificent mango questions to ask Marie from Manbulloo Mangoes who grows mangos for our community partner Coles. Hit the link to read our story and solve all your mango mysteries.

10.01.2022 Nice to meet you! Like to get to know some of the fine folks who provide support and professional development to the kitchen garden community? Hit the link for a Q and A with our wonderful Support & Delivery team.

10.01.2022 Elizabeth Downs Primary School in beautiful Adelaide have an opening for a garden specialist, commencing Term 1 2021. More info at the link. Applications close Sunday 29 November. https://jobs.education.sa.gov.au/page.php

09.01.2022 #SAKGFguesstheplant What am I? It's NAIDOC week and a great way to celebrate the history and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is through learning about, and cooking with, Indigenous foods. This succulent has been foraged by Indigenous Australians for tens of thousands of years. Who can tell us what it is? Clue: The young, green shoots are quite crisp, similar to asparagus, with a salty flavour. You can enjoy the shoots raw; added to pesto or salad; or lightly blanched then pan-fried with olive oil, garlic and a dash of lemon juice. Our very own Support & Delivery Officer Suzie took this wonderful photo in the garden at East Fremantle Primary School Kitchen Garden last year.

08.01.2022 Tick off your festive gift list in our online shop! All proceeds support the Foundation. You’ll find great ideas for students, educators, foodies and gardeners. Check out The Great Chicken Escape children’s book, and feast your eyes on our fab aprons. All cookbooks in our shop are signed by Stephanie Alexander, including the gorgeous book for young foodies, The Cook’s Apprentice. We also have 12-packs of Stephanie’s Kitchen Garden Cooking with Kids, which make fab graduation gifts for students. Order by 16 December for pre-Christmas delivery Australia-wide. www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/shop

08.01.2022 Like to work at a kitchen garden school? Are you passionate about all aspects of good food, including growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing? Two rare opportunities are now available! Braeview School in South Australia is seeking a Kitchen Specialist. Riddells Creek Primary in Victoria is seeking a Kitchen Garden Specialist. Click the link and scroll down to ‘Join the Team’ for more information. www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/content/about-us

08.01.2022 A clean ocean for the dolphins and fish A nice and shiny world with lots of sparkles! In honour of World Children's Day, check out the beautiful artwork and messages from around Australia:

07.01.2022 A wonderful post on the mental health benefits of edible gardening, from our friends at Food From Home.

06.01.2022 Step aside sourdough! Broaden your bread-making skills in our damper webinar with Chef Nornie Bero. You’ll make damper inspired by the bread Nornie ate growing up on Mer Island in the Torres Strait with ingredients like banana leaves, pumpkin, wattleseed and saltbush. We're beyond excited to host Nornie from much-loved Mabu Mabu as she celebrates Australian native ingredients and her own cultural history. Members from all sectors are invited. Webinar date/price: 3 December/$15. Book via the link (members only) http://bit.ly/DamperWorkshop

06.01.2022 Why did the chickens cross the road at By My Side Primary School? You’ll find the answer in Brendan Bolton’s new storybook. Garden Specialist and storyteller Brendan has run kitchen garden programs in Victorian primary schools for many years. In his debut children’s book, the Great Chicken Escape, he shares the true story of some cheeky chooks and their high-henergy getaway. Brendan explains: The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation has been a very big part o...f my working life and I have had a number of experiences during this time that I wanted to write down before I forgot them in my old age. The Great Chicken Escape is a true account of a garden class I was involved in. My kitchen garden journey began at Surfside Primary School and continued at Thomas Chirnside Primary School so the setting of the book simply had to have ‘side’ in its name By My Side Primary School seemed appropriate! The school’s garden is like many in the Kitchen Garden Program so children will easily relate to both the setting and the storyline. This beautiful book, illustrated by Minerva Lamorgese White Mivart Creations makes the perfect festive gift for kitchen garden children. All proceeds from books sold through our shop support the Foundation. Shop www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/shop See more

03.01.2022 Like to WIN a fantastic Kitchen Garden Prize Pack? Get kneading! Create a fun focaccia topping with red and gold Perino tomatoes and you could score: Kitchen Garden Cooking with Kids, signed by Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Journal Kitchen Garden calico bag Coles and Kitchen Garden Foundation apron... $100 Coles gift card Stainless steel Perino lunchbox and drink bottle. There are ten packs up for grabs. Hit the link for more info and our delicious, simple focaccia recipe. This fun competition was created with our community partner Coles, and Perino Tomatoes! Closing 16 February. www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/content/perino-tomatoes See more

01.01.2022 Calling Secondary Years students and teachers! Have you entered our competition? It’s closing midnight this Friday! To celebrate the launch of the Kitchen Garden Program for Secondary Years, Australian high schools can WIN one of two membership packages and $3,500 towards their own kitchen garden. Head to bit.ly/KGP_SecondaryYears_Comp for more info.