SAKG

CONGRATULATIONS 

BEST EDIBLE GARDEN AWARD

Our beautiful kitchen garden was lucky enough to receive a ‘Best Edible Garden’ award in the recent Victorian School Garden Awards (https://www.vsgp.org.au/vsga-awards-program/) The award is assessed on a number of key criteria, aside from the overall garden design and usage: sustainable features, use of recycled materials, planned garden developments, and the involvement of students, parents, volunteers and the wider community.

Some of our initiatives this year have included the dramatic increase in our composting to provide all of our compost needs – no easy task with over 70 raised beds of varying sizes. This has been achieved with the assistance of Year 6 environment leaders making improvements to class composting, sourcing coffee grounds from our local café, Daniel Son, and animal manure from a local animal rescue (thanks Miranda), shredding our paper waste in the SAKG and lots of chopping green waste from our Year 3 and 4 students.

We have included many different recycled materials in our garden, with the addition of new signage made from wood offcuts and metal lids, bed heads used as climbing frames and worm towers made from pvc offcuts. New developments in the garden have included the propagation and planting of over 100 indigenous plants and trees for National School Tree Day and of course our Bush Tucker garden.

To keep our garden productive and maintained requires the work of many. We are incredibly grateful to our garden volunteers who have assisted with watering over the holidays and kept returning after the various lockdowns that have plagued us this year. We really hope to see you all again next year! The year 3 and 4 teachers have done a fantastic job when volunteers were unavailable and of course our Years 3 and 4 students who stay on task in the garden every week bringing their enthusiasm, ideas and questions to keep us all