Sponsored By Slow Food Noosa
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Slow Food Kitchen Garden Grants
Sponsorship of edible school gardens
SPONSORSHIP OF SLOW FOOD KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT / EDIBLE
SCHOOL GARDENS PROJECT February 2009
The project is scheduled to begin at the start of Term 2,
2009
Slow Food Noosa will provide funds of $6000 towards the kitchen
garden/ edible school gardens project of which the successful
school is to match these funds (this can be acquired from grants,
donations etc.).
Please elaborate on how your school will obtain funding.
The principal needs to fully support the program. The
school will be required to organize a kitchen garden/ edible
school gardens project working committee, preferably made
up of a combination of interested teachers, groundman, tuckshop
conveners and parents, to work with Leonie Shanahan to embed the
program into the school and the community. This committee needs
to be in place BEFORE the project begins.
Your school requires space, access to water and a positive
environment towards sustainability and good food.
Teachers whos classes/students are involved with the garden are
required, when requested, to follow through with tasks For
example: year 3 collect food scraps from tuckshop and feed
worms, Years 4 & 5 (rotating weeks) water the garden
when required. Year 6 Green teams to collect food scraps
and to turn compost. Leonie will set up these waste
reduction systems.
The longevity of the project, when Leonie has completed her
contract, is a vitally important consideration. The school
needs to have plans now about how they will continue the project
eg: employ someone, or have a teacher or parent take over the
project. At the end of the project the school will
have an extensive manual on all processes done in the garden and
monthly activities and subject suggestions. How
do you see your school continuing the project, please elaborate
on this.
It is important that we have access to photographs to use for
further media promotions, functions and also for our
websites. We would expect the school to authorize photos of
the students in the garden, except due to legal reasons
surrounding the student. All photos would be given to the school
for authorization first.
School is to verifiy there insurance policy in regards to the
Kitchen Garden/Edible School Gardens Project and provide written
documentation.
It is recommended that the school provide teacher/parent
volunteers training once or twice a year with Edible School
Gardens co-ordinator Leonie Shanahan after the project has
finished.
Slow Food Noosa Kitchen Garden Project/Edible School Gardens
reserves the right to withdraw from the project should the
school not be supportive or co-operative of the
project.
Send written expressions of interest to:
Slow Food Kitchen Garden Project
PO Box 1564, Noosaville DC Qld 4566
With all the above information included in your submission.
