Are you interested in setting up a food garden at school? Then come and hear from experienced school gardeners and visit their gardens.
Kate Hubmayer (Black Forest Primary School), Deidre Knight (Nazareth Catholic Community), Harry Harrison (Rare Fruit Society) and Karyn Duance (Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Association) share their experience to get you started with food [...]
Archive for the ‘Learnscape basics’ Category
Adelaide school garden tour and workshop
Posted in Learnscape basics, Permaculture learnscaping in schools, Upcoming courses and workshops, tagged Adelaide, Black Forest Primary School, school garden on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wonderful resources for school gardens
Posted in Learnscape basics, Permaculture learnscaping in schools on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The California School Gardens Network have developed a wonderful kit of resources that are well worth a look. They cover planning, design, maintenance, resources, curriculum integration and much more. Check them out here.
School gardens seminar – Melbourne
Posted in Learnscape basics, Permaculture learnscaping in schools, Upcoming courses and workshops on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Professinal Development short course to be held in Melbourne, Victoria commences September 28th, 2009. A successful collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and Cranbourne and Cultivating Community brings the best of Melbourne’s school garden expertise, educators and horticuluralists to share inspiring information and stories. It is a course designed for those wanting hands [...]
Carss Park Community Garden on-track
Posted in Australian learnscapes, Community gardens, Learnscape basics, Permaculture design, Recent courses and workshops on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In late 2008 Living Schools worked with Kogarah Council to initiate a community garden project on a local disused bowling green in Carrs Park.
Following initial promotion and community consultation regarding the concept an enthusiastic group had formed, eager to learn and to put their ideas to the test. Educators worked with the group, facilitating two [...]
Stephanie Alexander’s kitchen garden program
Posted in Learnscape basics, Permaculture learnscaping in schools on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this year funding was allocated to Stephanie Alexander’s kitchen garden program by the Commonwealth Government. This program has been piloted in Victoria and is providing funding for the development of both food gardens and kitchen facilities. Today Nicola Roxon announced funding to government primary schools to support the development of food gardens [...]
Getting started in community gardening – a guide
Posted in Community gardens, Learnscape basics, Permaculture design on August 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Living Schools has recently partnered with the City of Sydney Council and the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Networks to produce a guide for anyone interested in setting up a community garden in their area. The guide covers setup, management and maintenance, as well as some of the trickier aspects of social dynamics. Download [...]
How does a child connect to nature?
Posted in Learnscape basics, Permaculture learnscaping in schools, tagged David Sobel, fantasy, imagination, learnscape, learnscaping, school garden on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re interested in learnscape design for children you may be interested in the work of David Sobel, who postulates that attempts to get children to take an interest in ’saving the environment’ are likely to have little impact if the child has not first had the experience of personal connection with their environment. [...]
For those of you new to the concept of a learnscape…
Posted in Learnscape basics, tagged education, greywater, permaculture, sustainable living on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I recommend having a good look at the following website: www.ecocentro.org. This is an awesome community development project in Brazil, designed using Permaculture principles and functioning literally as a living school. They produce their own food, recycle all greywater and human waste, have a huge range of beautiful, functional earth buildings that accommodate their many [...]
