School+Gardens

Involving students in the creation of school playground spaces that attract wildlife, demonstrate seasonal change and feature insect lifecycle is essential to the development of ecoliteracy programs in schools. Playgrounds that facilitate student ecoliteracy are created with the principals of permaculture design. Read about those here [|SEED]

There are a diversity of plants, those that the children can use in their cooking are placed close to where children cook and share food. Trees that bare fruit seasonally are placed further from the buildings. Everything in the garden plays a host of roles in offering shade, nutrients, mulch, soil stability, space for imaginative play or sensory experiences for children.

The Gardens in the pictures above belong to the Bondi Junction Primary School : Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program. The school made holes in the bitumen and created a series of food garden beds that students tend and then use to prepare dishes in the school kitchen. Below are some pictures from the Driver Primary School Garden, a a more tropical food garden.