Rave Reviews
What people have said about 'Eat Your Garden'
There has been some lovely feedback since 'Eat Your Garden' was
launched, some of it just too good not to share! Please see
below what others have had to say from Gardening Experts to
'normal' mums and others...
January/February 2011
Organic GARDENER Eat Your Garden
Review
A veteran of establishing school vegie patches, Noosa-based
permaculture designer Shanahan has come up with an attractive,
colourful guide to getting kids growing their own organic food
and enjoying the process.
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1 December 2010
Subtropical Gardening Eat Your Garden Review Issue
21 Summer 2010/11
Eat Your Garden by Leonie Shanahan
An inspirational book especially geared towards children.
The book addresses warm climate gardening and includes a monthly
planting guide. It also includes a large number of fun
activities that can be undertaken in the garden. A great
present for young gardeners.
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Thursday 14 October 2010
Gardening Australia 'Eat Your Garden' book
review
If you're a beginner gardener, a mum or dad, and you an your
child would like to learn about gardening, this book is for
you. Successfully merging permaculture with organic
gardening, and years of practical advice from a gardener who has
been involved in every aspect of school and home
food...
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September 2010
September 2010 QECSN Network Newsletter Book
Review
Eat Your Garden: Organic Gardening for Home & Schools is a
truly beautiful book that through compre-hensive practical
information underpinned by the vision, "To develop edible gardens
within school communities that will encourage healthy eating
habits" (p11) is guar-anteed to inspire you....
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September 2010
BOOK WORM - Eat Your Garden Review
WHOLISTIC BLISS September 2010
Known as a pioneer in the development of edible gardens, local
Leonie Shanahan will be exchanging her gardening boots and
wide-brimmed hat for smarter attire as she gets ready to launch
her first book "Eat Your Garden" on the 16th September.
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September 2010
Minds made
fertile, Caloundra Weekly
Our Lady of the Rosary students enjoy fruits of their labour
during Harvest Festival. A feast of Madagascar bean
patties, vegetable pizzas and minestrone soup was served up at
Our Lady of the Rosary last month to celebrate Harvest
Festival.
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August 2010
Grow
your own snack bar, The Noosa Journal
EDIBLE-GARDEN pioneer Leonie Shanahan, of Castaways Beach, will
swap her work boots and wide-brimmed hat for work something
smarter for the launch of her first book, Eat Your Garden, on
September 16.
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12 Aug 10
GIVE her a shovel, some gumboots and a watering can and Leonie Shanahan knows just how to get kids to eat their fruit and veges.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Jerry Coleby-Williams review of Eat Your Garden
"If they (children) grow it, they will eat it". Schools are
where Australia's gardening culture is most rapidly developing,
and this is thanks to children. Why? They are generally more
keenly aware of 21st century global environmental issues than
many adults realise and they want a better future.
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Thursday 08th of July 2010
Local hits the big time with Book Launch, My Sunshine
Coast Life, Noely Neate
Many locals on the Sunshine Coast would have seen the lady on the
right here, in all sorts of daggy hats and clunky work boots,
sometimes a tad dirty from grubbing around in a garden,
particularly the kids. Leonie Shanahan has been helping
little kids (and some big kids) on the Sunshine...
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June 18, 2010
School Garden Project - Noosa News - Slow Food
Noosa
Over the past four years Slow Food Noosa has sponsored four
school kitchen gardens in our local area. These include:
Noosaville State School, Peregian Beach College, Cooran State
School and Sunshine Beach State School
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