ABSTRACT
The Kitchen Garden Foundation was established by Stephanie Alexander AO, Australia’s most recognized and iconic chef and food writer, in 2004. This was on the basis of the success of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program pilot that began in 2001. The Kitchen Garden Foundation works with a growing number of over 2000 early childhood services and schools to run kitchen garden programmes and deliver pleasurable food education. In order to get children cooking and gardening in a way that taught them the pleasures and benefits of freshly grown food, Stephanie needed to find a primary school with the land to grow produce, as well as a principal with a shared concern for the food habits of young children. The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation was later established to increase the capacity to raise money and expand the Kitchen Garden Program to other schools. In the Kitchen Garden Program, students are responsible for growing and maintaining productive vegetable gardens.
