14 Nov 2023

Garden to pre-school table to get veggies into kid's diets

From Afternoons, 1:25 pm on 14 November 2023

Garden to Table is a programme to teach tamariki to grow, harvest and prepare food.

Run by a charitable trust, 300 primary schools are on board. 

Now the programme is expanding into preschools, with new garden beds being unveiled at a kindergarten in Auckland last week.

Oropi primary, a rural school near Tauranga has been running the programme for the past 10 years. Heron Rickard is the Garden Specialist there, she speaks to Jesse.

Freshly picked vegetables and greens in wicker basket in garden on background with working adults and children. Successful family gardening concept

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