We're delighted to launch the Garden to Table 'Garden Parties' fundraiser. We have
the perfect way to celebrate the end of summer and beautiful autumn harvests, while helping more children learn how to grow, harvest, prepare and share
good food. For inspiration, have a look at the beautiful feature article about Garden to Table Garden Parties in the latest edition of Your Home and Garden magazine, out in March 2019.
We are excited to announce our new Garden to Table Ambassador, landscape designer Dan Mackay.
Dan is one of New Zealand’s most renowned landscape designers, most recently known for his appearance as resident landscape and gardening expert on TVNZ’s
home and garden makeover reality series HOMEmade.
Wondering how the Garden to Table programme works?
Haumoana School in Hawke's Bay recently featured in the Education Gazette, and showed how their Garden to Table programme is fully integrated across all
aspects of school life. You can read their story here.
We're all likely to spend a few $10's over the next few weeks. There's the 'Secret Santa' we have to buy for work, a couple of boxes of chocolates, and a Christmas card or two.
Today, we're asking you to consider sharing $10 that will make a difference for a young child. $10 that will help us offer Garden to Table to a child within a school, for a year.
Announcing the winners of the T&G Young Gardener Awards 2018
Friday, September 21, 2018 | Linda Taylor
From the rolling hills of Wainui to the fertile soils of north Canterbury and the crisper climate of Invercargill, we've unearthed NZ's best school gardens, and young gardeners!
More than 130 entries were received from 45 primary schools in the eagerly contested 2018 awards, nearly doubling the number of entries received in last
year’s competition.
Our huge thanks to our National Growing Partner,T&G Global, for their continued support of Garden to Table, and the Young Gardener Awards.
We're delighted to launch the Garden to Table 'Garden Parties' fundraiser. We have\n the perfect way to celebrate the end of summer and beautiful autumn harvests, while helping more children learn how to grow, harvest, prepare and share\n good food. For inspiration, have a look at the beautiful feature article about Garden to Table Garden Parties in the latest edition of Your Home and Garden magazine, out in March 2019.
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However you choose to celebrate time with your friends, family and colleagues, a Garden to Table Garden Party is the perfect excuse to come together.\n
We will email you suggested recipes, hints and tips, and send you Garden to Table 'thank you' cards for your guests. We'll help you set up your own\n donation site so your guests can donate to Garden to Table, while you focus on creating a fun event. Outdoors or indoors, a select few\n friends or a grand affair, we'd love your support to make a difference in the life of a Kiwi child. Good food, with good friends, for a great\n cause.
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For details and to register your Garden Party, visit our dedicated website at www.gttgardenparties.org.nz. \n
We are excited to announce our new Garden to Table Ambassador, landscape designer Dan Mackay. \n
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Dan is one of New Zealand’s most renowned landscape designers, most recently known for his appearance as resident landscape and gardening expert on TVNZ’s\n home and garden makeover reality series HOMEmade.\n \n
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For the past 15 years, Dan has brought his wild ideas to life, all of which are unique and tackled with true enthusiasm. Originally from Timaru,\n Dan travelled the world before settling in Auckland to study horticulture, landscape design and construction. Nowadays, his talent and passion has\n made him a household name to many. Dan turned his passion in to a career with the launch of his business Ministry of Ground – an Auckland landscaping solutions company that aims to take a different perspective on landscaping its works\n renowned for being a beautiful collision between art and practicality.
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Dan loves to push the boundaries of landscape design with his innovative ideas. However, his dedication to sustainability is what sets him apart from the\n rest. His landscape designs encourage customers to sustain not only themselves but the environment.\n \n
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In his spare time Dan loves to skateboard with his five children, and tend to his own vegetable garden.\n \n
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Dan joins existing Garden to Table Ambassadors, Al Brown, and Niki Bezzant, and we are delighted that Dan has agreed to generously donate his time as a Garden to Table Ambassador, despite a hectic work and filming schedule. He has already been a huge hit with students when visiting Garden to Table schools!
Wondering how the Garden to Table programme works?\n
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Haumoana School in Hawke's Bay recently featured in the Education Gazette, and showed how their Garden to Table programme is fully integrated across all\n aspects of school life. You can read their story here.
We're all likely to spend a few $10's over the next few weeks. There's the 'Secret Santa' we have to buy for work, a couple of boxes of chocolates, and a Christmas card or two. \n
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Today, we're asking you to consider sharing $10 that will make a difference for a young child. \n $\n 10 that will help us offer Garden to Table to a child within a school, for a year. \n
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A year of learning to love, grow and cook fresh fruit and vegetables which, we know, can make a long-term impact on health.
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But Garden to Table is more than just a food education programme. You will also be giving a child the chance to find out that, actually, they can be\n pretty good at maths. Or science. Or English. $10 that can change the way they view themselves, what they can do, and what they are capable of.
Why Garden to Table? We hear all the time that \"Garden to Table day is our favourite day of the week\" and that, for some children,\n it's what gets them to school that day. For others, it's the chance to have proper meal. And there's no stigma attached. Everyone sits down and\n enjoys what they've made, together. Sharing a sense of pride and achievement.
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“I call Garden to Table a Happy Programme. It brings great joy for all involved; students, volunteers and school staff who partake. Take a picture of a Garden to Table session and you will see all the bright smiles and happy faces.” Simon, Kitchen Specialist.\n
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But we need help to be there. $10 will help us support a child, providing the resources, training and contact to get their Garden to Table programme\n up and running.
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We can't do it without you.\n
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From the rolling hills of Wainui to the fertile soils of north Canterbury and the crisper climate of Invercargill, we've unearthed NZ's best school gardens, and young gardeners!\n
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More than 130 entries were received from 45 primary schools in the eagerly contested 2018 awards, nearly doubling the number of entries received in last\n year’s competition. \n
Our huge thanks to our National Growing Partner,T&G Global, for their continued support of Garden to Table, and the Young Gardener Awards. \n
We're delighted to announce the following winners:\n
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T&G Passion for Growing Award - Milford School, Milford, North Shore: This school developed a\n garden specifically to attract and protect native butterflies and moths. Milford School started its thriving gardening club in 2009 thanks to the help\n of a parent, and since then the school garden has gone from strength to strength. Butterflies have a starring role in the school’s gardening activity.\n The kids grow flowers they know they’ll love and tag them to do their bit for the Moths and Butterflies of NZ Trust, something which actively involves\n the school in science learning. They have learnt practical gardening and problem solving skills, for example, the kids had to figure out how to get\n water to the butterfly garden which was a long way from the water supply. The students learnt about the importance of water, the concept of rainwater\n collection through the installation of a rain water tank.
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T&G Garden to Table Established School of the Year - North Loburn School in north Canterbury: (pictured) What started as a small\n garden project for this rural school has grown into a fully flourished garden with nine large raised vegetable, three herb beds, a tunnel house and\n scarecrows.The school pins much of the programme’s success to the fact that the Garden to Table activities are tweaked to fit in with the school’s\n rural style, as well as being largely student lead. Older students lead younger ones in group projects such as building scarecrows and vegetable signs.\n Last term a class planted broad beans after reading Jack and the Beanstalk in a bid to link the gardening efforts with what’s happening in the class.
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T&G Garden to Table Emerging School of the Year - Wainui School, Wainui, north of Auckland: This school encourages\n all of their students to become kaitiaki (guardians) of our environment and has seen students who struggle in the classroom, blossom in the gardenTheir\n learning goes beyond growing and nutrition and includes writing, maths, science and even enterprise.The students have begun creating other sustainable\n products such as lip balm and ginger beer to sell.\n \n
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Five very deserving and passionate Young Gardener Awards have also been unearthed\n \n
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1.Hannah Kome, age 9, from Cannons Creek School, Porirua
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2.Jing Mei, age 10, from Forrest Hill School, North Shore, Auckland
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3.Josh Angelo, age 11, from Holy Cross School, Miramar, Wellington
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4.Jackson Evans, age 10, from Macandrew Bay School, Dunedin
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5.Finn Meijer, age 11, from Waihopai School, Invercargill
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The winning schools will receive some great prizes that will no doubt help to keep them on track with their gardening ventures, including fruit trees from\n T&G, irrigation systems from GARDENA, Hungry Bin worm farms and goodies from Tui as well as design help from Garden to Table ambassador Dan Mackay\n for the Emerging and Passion for Growing schools.
