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Inaugrual National Kitchen Garden Awards launch
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Freya Lucas
Jul 30, 2024
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The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation has launched the inaugural National Kitchen Garden Awards to recognise the tremendous creativity of kitchen gardens in schools and early childhood services across Australia.
Winners will be selected from nine award categories:
- Sustainable Solutions - presented by Costa
Share some of the ways sustainable practices have been championed in the kitchen or garden.
- Recipes of the Imagination - presented by General Mills
Tell us your original recipe creation developed by an educator and their class.
- Wellbeing Champions - presented by Kellogg’s
Tell us about how the kitchen and garden is great for young people’s mental health, fitness and wellbeing.
- Beyond the School Gate
Show us some great examples of how your school’s kitchen or garden has had ripple effects into the community.
- Showcasing STEM
Show us how green space or kitchen activities have been used to explore science, technology, engineering, and maths.
- Everyone’s Welcome
Tell us how your kitchen or garden helps you celebrate togetherness, understanding, all cultures and abilities.
- The Art of Kitchen Gardening
Let’s see how the garden and fresh ingredients have inspired storytelling and artistic pursuits.
- First Nations Foods
We’d love to see how schools incorporate First Nations Food into their learning.
- Level up your Veg
Explain how kitchen and garden lessons encourage students to try new vegetables, often for the first time.
"Schools and early childhood settings around the country have developed creative and practical ways for students and children to learn and connect through fresh food and inspire healthy life skills,” Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation CEO Dr Cathy Wilkinson said.
“Our national awards will spotlight the projects that are giving fresh food a chance to be incorporated into learning and the lives of all young Australians."
The Awards celebrate the inventive, community-driven ways educators and young Australians are using their kitchen garden to learn about health, wellbeing and sustainability.
Cook and food education advocate Stephanie Alexander will be joined by produce expert Thanh 'Fruit Nerd' Truong, plus cookbook author and broadcaster Alice Zaslavsky to review the finalists in each of the nine award categories.
Winners will be announced at a special Kitchen Garden Month celebration hosted by Stephanie Alexander at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 11 September.
Over $5000 in value will be gifted to each of the nine category winners.
- $1000 in cash to advance kitchen and garden infrastructure.
- A kitchen garden product pack valued at over $3500.
- A two-year membership to the globally recognised Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program (or a two-year extension of membership for schools and services already teaching the program).
Eligibility
- Entry is via the website, here.
- Enter 200 words to answer the category theme and submit your application. Images are optional.
- These awards are open to all primary schools, secondary schools and early childhood services across Australia, and you do not need to be a member of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program to apply.
- Enter one or all of the award categories.
- Applications close at 5 pm on Monday 12 August.
Learn more about the Foundation here.
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