School Kitchen Garden Project, Echuca Twin Rivers Specialist School

Providing support to Echuca Twin Rivers Specialist School to increase consumption of healthy food within their community. The project included: - Enrolment in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program. - Support to develop a shared calendar between garden staff/students, kitchen garden/staff and café staff/students to increase planting, harvesting and use of produce. - Support to include the garden program as an option for school subject selection. - Installation of a permanent watering system throughout the garden to improve sustainability, quality and amount of produce and reduce the need for staff/volunteers to have to maintain the garden by hand. - Installation of a small greenhouse to enable the school to propagate their own seeds, with the view to being fully sustainable, as well as creating a seed library for the wider community. - Providing small-scale kitchen equipment including fridge, freezer and scales to assist with produce storage, preparation of meals and waste reduction. - Assessment of their café menu assessment to support offering of healthy options.