DIRTY hands is a school and community garden development programme supporting communities and collaborative organisations to enhance children’s and community food, health and ecological knowledge and awareness.
Through this project, Slow Food Australia helps primary schools and communities to create and maintain kitchen gardens. It also engages the participation of horticulture, nutrition and teacher undergraduates and their university faculties and vocational training colleges.
Slow Food Australia seeks to collaborate in the programme’s development with associations including:
Dirty hands extends to Pod lento, a Slow Food Australia-sponsored kids-own web development project through which children can share kitchen-gardening information and creativity across the country.
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Slow Food has a range of taste education resources for schools, including kits, workbooks and advice for teachers:
Learn about our other Australian projects