Sponsored By Slow Food Noosa |
Noosaville State School
Sponsored by Slow Food Noosa
The
first school to be sponsored by Slow Food Noosa was set up in
2007. All Year 6 students were involved in the
project and the garden was set up right outside their classrooms
which was brilliant.
At any time, teachers could keep an eye on the students if they
had gone into the garden for an activity or even to watch what we
were doing on gardening days.
This school has lots of parkland around it and therefore lots of
visiting wildlife, mainly kangaroos and ducks, so we have grown a
living fence of food that these animals like hoping that they
will eat from these medium sized plants and leave our salads and
vegies alone.
Travelsmart Noosa donated native trees to the project to
recognize the many students riding their bikes to school.
We planted these on the lower west side of the garden to provide
some shade.
Whenever we had lots of produce coming on, we would contact Slow
Food Noosa and either Matt Golinski or Katrina Ryan would come
and cook with the students - see Harvest Days
All grounds people were extremely supportive of the project and
wonderful to work with.
The project finished at the end of last year and now the grounds
woman gardens with the Year 6 students a couple of afternoons a
week and the garden is thriving.