In this episode we talk to Projects Manager for the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, Natasha Grogan. Natasha shares how the program works, tips for getting started, and the joy it can bring to school children. We also dive into how the school garden can cross over to the school tuckshop.

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation provides the inspiration, information, professional development and support for educators to deliver pleasurable food education to children and young people in Australia.

Pleasurable food education is a fun, hands-on approach to teaching children and young people about fresh, seasonal, delicious food so they form positive food habits for life.

Delivered through a kitchen garden program, pleasurable food education has an array of health, wellbeing, education and community benefits.

https://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/

About the guest:

Natasha Grogan is a Support and Projects Manager at the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation.  Back in 2008 and 2012, she was a SAKGF garden specialist for two primary schools in Melbourne. 

After four and a half years as a garden specialist she started her own small business, The Sage Garden, which specialised in teaching children, predominantly in the early years, to grow their own organic food. 

In 2020 Natasha returned the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation as their Early Childhood Project Officer using her experience and passion for teaching in early childhood to support and guide members through the kitchen garden program. 

In 2022 she moved into a management role leading the kitchen garden team to deliver the Program Australia-wide.

This podcast is proudly brought to you by the Queensland Association of School Tuckshops and funded by the Queensland Government through Health and Wellbeing Queensland.