Garden to Table's recipe for success in schools

An Owaiaraka School student participating in the Garden to Table programme - one of the charities supported by the One Percent Collective.

Over 300 schools now participate in the Garden to Table programme.
Photo: Pat Shepherd – One Percent Collective / Facebook

For 15 years a programme running in schools has been teaching kids how to grow, harvest and prepare their own food. Garden to Table was set up as a charitable trust back in 2008 and the following year ran a pilot with three schools. The aim was to help children understand where their food came from, what good nutrition looked like and empower them with skills for the future.

Those initial three participating schools now number over 318. Kathryn is joined by Catherine Bell, the Trust’s co-founder and Chair to discuss how the programme has changed over the years, and principal of Auckland’s Dominion Road School Lesley Mitchell.