It’s been a very busy 12 months with the launch of my new DVD Edible School Gardens, Speaking and Workshop Events throughout Qld and NSW, starting a community garden, my usual edible school gardens program and now the launch of my organic gardening workshops from home. It’s looking like a busy year and I look forward to meeting many more gardeners along the way. Continue reading...

People often ask me why I started Edible School Gardens. I was at my young daughters’ school when the students came out for their lunch break and inside those lunchboxes were brightly coloured food that came in plastic, this food was mostly made in laboratories and manipulated to look and taste like food...... I was horrified ...It was that moment I knew I needed to go into schools and teach children about growing organic food and let children experience food bursting with flavour and freshness. Continue reading...

I wanted to say a big thank-you fore sending them so quickly and say how impressed I am with both the book and DVD. Continue reading...

Growing food • transforming place • creating culture ...celebrating community one lettuce at a time 5th ACFCGN National School & Community Garden Gathering. Leonie’s session will give an overview of the different schools I have been involved in and how she runs the edible school gardens program showing a powerpoint of all the different steps involved in the 12 month program. Continue reading...

Thanks to Costa Geogiadis for mentioning his visit to our Edible School Gardens Harvest Day Celebration at Our Lady of the Rosary, Caloundra Qld. The students, parents, teachers, principal and the whole community thoroughly enjoyed his hands on visit. Continue reading...

Leonie Shanahan is passionate about the health of our children and growing organic food. I’ve taught thousands of students in schools about setting up organic gardens, growing food that is alive and is full of flavour and seeing the joy they have in eating their own produce. Here are her tips for setting up a pint-sized patch in your own garden. Continue reading...

For many of us, the first food we ever grew was mustard and cress on the kitchen windowsill or beans squashed by rolled up paper towels to the inside of a jum jar. Growing their own food indoors is very exciting for children and fast germinations means quick results for impatient yound growers. Continue reading...

Edible School Gardens have become the new buzz around schools and as a garden educator that have been promoting health and growing food in schools for over 10 years, it’s a relief to see vegetable gardens becoming the ‘norm’ in schools. Continue reading...

As a teacher and Earth lover, watching Leonie’s “Edible School Gardens” DVD was a very big “thank goodness!!!!!”.... Leonie has succinctly and clearly related how making and maintaining a school garden may be done. For all of us visual and kinaesthetic learners, she has sequenced the life of the school garden over a period of a seasonal year, into bite sized do-able pieces. And I just love the inclusion of the children’s feedback. What better way to grow a child into health,self empowerment, knowledge and joy....This is real life experiential learning! Continue reading...

“If they grow it, they will eat it”, that’s Leonie Shanahan’s positive message for parents and schools. But how to get an affordable school food garden started? Continue reading...

Noosa’s first community garden is “coming up roses” or, to be more accurate, beans, Asian greens, corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuces, zucchinis, cabbages and herbs. Continue reading...

Noosa’s Community Garden is being developed as an opportunity for the local community to work together to build a sustainable garden which will provide a sense of place and community, as well as a sense of achievement that comes from growing your own food. Continue reading...

Noosa’s first community garden is “coming up roses” or, to be more accurate, beans, Asian greens, corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuces, zucchinis, cabbages and herbs. Continue reading...

SOWING SEEDS for the future: The early years and beyond Continue reading...

Edible School Gardens — the living classroom workshop, Leonie’s session will give an overview of the different schools I have been involved in and how she runs the edible school gardens program showing a powerpoint of all the different steps involved in the 12 month program. Continue reading...

A special award was presented to Leonie Shanahan of Edible School Gardens at this year Glossies awards. Leonie was presented with a ' Recognition of Achievement' Award for her outstanding work in schools on the Sunshine Coast over 10+ years. Continue reading...

Leonie Shanahan is passionate about the health of our children and growing organic food. She has taught thousands of school students to set up organic gardens, grow food this is alive and full of flavour and experience the joy of eating their own produce. Here are her tips for setting up a pint-sized patch in your own garden. Continue reading...

"Growing for health, happiness, fun and a sustainable life". All ages need to experience health through growing food whether its in a childcare centre, backyard or school garden. Continue reading...

Herb Society   meeting.
Tuesday 4th September  Guest speaker    Leonie will be speaking about her edible school gardens program  at Albion Peace Hall 102 McDonald Road, Windsor (Brisbane)  at 7.30pm

Real Food Festival Maleny Saturday 8th September. The Real Food Festival is a fantastic celebration of the wonderful variety of food that Sunshine Coast producers, manufacturers and restaurants have to offer, and a brilliant way to talk, taste and buy from them. Continue reading...