Help empower tamariki to grow, harvest, prepare, and share great food
Garden to Table is a charitable trust that supports primary and intermediate schools and kura to take learning out of the classroom and into the garden and the kitchen.
Our schools teach thousands of kiwi kids knowledge and skills that have a transformative and lifelong impact on their hauora — wellbeing — and on the world around them.
Seasonal stories
Tamariki get stuck in and get their hands dirty, with adults acting simply as observers and guides. Practical life skills develop alongside awareness of sustainability and environmentalism.
Hard work and patience pays off with a sense of achievement and whakahī, pride for children. Produce straight from the garden provides more nutritional benefits and it tastes better too!
Kids develop skills for life by cooking meals from scratch. Learning to use kitchen tools, weighing and measuring, and the science of food, all provides links to core curriculum concepts.
Everyone sits down to eat together, taking part in the age-old ritual of sharing food. Tamariki are often more adventurous about eating meals from food they have grown and prepared.
More than 22,000 kids across Aotearoa took part in our programme last year.
They spent more than 30,000 hours in the garden and kitchen.
We provided more than 3,000 hours of training and mentoring to educators.
Kids at 213 schools ate more than 800,000 vegetable-based meals.
Ngā mihi maioha, thank you, to our partners.
