[Vision: Children planting seedlings into garden bed under supervision of James]
James McLennan - Founder, Grassroots Sustainability
I’ve been doing some work for the Victorian school gardening program, let’s stay connected fund, and we put it under a program called the Connecting Junior Gardeners Program.
[Vision: Children planting seedlings into garden bed]
So we put together a four-week curriculum plan for schools, they can access it, and basically get their kids into the gardens and learning about gardening.
Noah - Junior Gardener
Been planting and we get more oxygen.
Olivia - Junior Gardener
We just didn’t watch, we helped too.
[Vision: Children planting seedlings into garden bed under supervision of James]
James McLennan - Founder, Grassroots Sustainability
Coming out of the year that we’ve had through COVID gardening plays a more important role than what it has before to get kids in the outdoors and learning about where their food’s coming from, but also growing food together collaboratively is a pretty special thing and is a great way of getting kids connecting with each other.
Olivia - Junior Gardener
We get more fresh air and we get to have, like, a little bit more fun.
[The Victorian Connection - people, communities & the economy. For more news and stories go to connection.vic.gov.au]
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