A great opportunity for our school community at Lalor Secondary College.
Bush Tucker Kitchen Garden at Lalor Secondary College
To develop a bush tucker garden and community oven
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Suggested by: Karen
Project partner: Lalor Secondary College
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Northern Metro
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This project was the idea of a group of indigenous students I work with at Lalor Secondary College. They meet to discuss cultural issues and their place in the school community. We want to plant a kitchen garden using both regular vegetables and bush tucker plants. To give a centre to this garden we want to have an art project with a community artist to lead us to build and decorate a bush oven shaped like Bunjil the eagle and our spiritual creator. The older members of our community will use the garden with us outside school hours.
The garden will be a meeting place for old and young members of our community. Our local Wurundjeri elders through Whittlesea Shire Council Reconciliation Group support the project and will partner with us giving us their expertise.
The garden will also benefit the school community as a new garden area will be created on disused land. All students will learn about the growing, harvesting and preparation of bush tucker through the year 9 and 10 food technology curriculum. All students can enjoy the garden with us and learn from us.
Project details
Suggested by: Karen
Project partner: Lalor Secondary College
Region
Northern Metro
Budget
Votes
130 votes received
This project did not receive enough votes to be successful.
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Brilliant project for the Lalor community.
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This would benefit the indigenous students of Lalor SC, as well as everyone else in the community. A great opportunity to engage all
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This is a critically important initiative for the Lalor community. Congratulations
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Excellent project idea!! As a Koorie artist, educator and former teacher I think this project would have a huge impact on the wellbeing on Indigenous students and will offer so much to the entire student body, staff and school community for education, collaboration and learning from an Indigenous perspective in a hands on way.
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Hi I am Aboriginal woman my tribe is yorta yorta it is very important for our young indigenous youth to learn about their culture and different bush tucker what you can cook up so please grant the funding thanks.
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Great idea with a real strength in building community and generational connections
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This project sounds fantastic, good on you all.
I used to teach at Keon Park Tech ages ago and I wish there'd been something like that in those days!
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This looks like a fantastic project to develop young people's leadership and community interactions.
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Love this project, really important for these young people to experience the contribution they can make to local community development
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Sounds fantastic, all the best!
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Great project. Good luck
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Excellent project. Great use of school resources for its diverse community
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Good luck, great project!
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Good luck. Sounds wonderful.
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Laz Zaekis
05 Sep 2018
An incredibly exciting project and opportunity for the students at Lalor Secondary College which will benefit the whole school community.