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 ‘Permaculture learnscaping in schools’ 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.
Nashville State School Permaculture Design Workshop
Posted in Australian learnscapes, Permaculture learnscaping in schools, Recent courses and workshops on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On 16th July 2009, eight teachers, parents and volunteers of Nashville State School’s wondrous food garden participated in a full day Permaculture Design workshop, giving them a range of skills for maintaining the various natural and developed systems that make up a functioning garden.
Participants learned about integrated pest management, relative placement of elements, soil fertility [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Canterbury Youth Environmental Leadership Program
Posted in Permaculture learnscaping in schools, Recent courses and workshops on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the last couple of months Living Schools has been working with Canterbury Council on a youth leadership program to celebrate Youth Environment Day. Through the program, students from four local high schools participated in visioning and strategic planning workshops designed to empower them to take action within their schools and local communities. Projects [...]
Wollongong school learnscapes an inspiration
Posted in Australian learnscapes, Permaculture learnscaping in schools, tagged Experiential Learning, learnscape, permaculture, transformative learning, Wollongong on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A recent visit to Cringila Public School was an eye opener to the amazing potential of learnscapes for children to learn not just about, for and in the environment, but also to gain an understanding of nutrition, develop healthy social skills and gain confidence and initiative. Teacher and Permaculture designer Aaron Sorenson holds regular sessions [...]
Gordon West Public School Rain Garden
Posted in Permaculture learnscaping in schools, Recent courses and workshops, tagged Experiential Learning, learnscape, rain garden, sense of place, stormwater, water sensitive urban design on May 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Year four students from Gordon West Public School have been working with Living Schools over the last few months to learn about stormwater. In partnership with Ku-ring-gai Council, Dunoon Bushcare group and the Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority, students participated in the development of a small rain garden, or bio-filtration device, in a local [...]
Learning in the Garden – 1st Australian School Gardens Network Gathering
Posted in Permaculture learnscaping in schools, Upcoming courses and workshops on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is time to bring the Australian school gardens community together to celebrate our achievements, learn from each other’s experiences and examine the role of school gardens in bringing about a sustainable future.
Growing Communities would like to invite you all to the 1st Australian School Gardens Network Gathering & Learning in the Garden Seminar in [...]
School Gardens Seminar
Posted in Permaculture learnscaping in schools, Upcoming courses and workshops, tagged education for sustainability, permaculture, school gardens, seminar on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One Day Seminar – Fri 18 or Sat 19 April 2008, Bokarina, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
If you have a school garden or are considering establishing or just wondering what all the recent excitement regarding school gardens and kitchens is about, the School Gardens Seminar may be of interest to members of your school community. On Friday [...]
