T&G Growers answer Garden to Table kids questions

As New Zealand’s leading grower, distributor and exporter of premium fresh produce, T&G are on a mission to grow healthier futures.

For nearly 10 years, T&G have kindly supported the Garden to Table Trust.

This long-standing partnership has seen us work collaboratively to develop teaching resources (including one exploring the journey of a jazz apple), and host a Young Gardener of the Year competition - both of which helped kids connect with growing as a career. Plus, T&G staff can regularly be found volunteering in their local Garden to Table school!

This year, we wanted to help Kiwi kids get closer to the 1,200 T&G growers, who grow fresh produce (including apples, grapes, berries, and tomatoes) on farms and orchards across the country.

So, we put the kids in the metaphorical driver’s seat, and allowed students at Holy Cross School - Te Rotokura in Wellington to ask a few T&G growers about their jobs.

They came up with some very clever questions - ranging from “how do you look after soil?” and “how do you make sure there’s a constant supply of apples?” to “if we could invent something to make your life easier, what would it be?”

The answers that the T&G growers provided offered great insight into what it’s like making a living from growing produce.

These little interviews have now been collated into a reading resource, which has been distributed to all Garden to Table schools.

Thank you so much to T&G for enabling the creation of this resource, which will help tamariki make connections between their Garden to Table harvest and New Zealand's commercial growing industry.