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How does your garden grow?
Like a grub on a lettuce leaf, I have a natural knack for desecrating plants in the blink of an eye. Behind the garden pest, I am the second worst enemy of all plant life. It’s not that I don’t love and appreciate our oxygen-producing, food-giving friends; it’s just that I have an uncanny ability to kill them. Click here to read more...



Permaculture in Noosa on the Sunshine Coast
In our program, which has been introduced into 12 schools on the Sunshine Coast, we follow the principals of permaculture There are 3 principals of Permaculture are;
  1. Earth Care
  2. People Care and
  3. Fair share (which covers reduction to consumption and sharing of seeds, plants and knowledge )


Students learn the life skill of growing organic food and the systems within them. The Edible school gardens program is a kid driven program
  • the students design the garden
  • the students implement the garden with the local school community
  • the students maintain the garden
  • the students enjoy the food from the garden
  • experience the different methods of cooking food from the garden




Latest Articles / News

Permaculture at schools is magic 12 October 09   Our Lady of the Rosary mother-of-three Liza Neil never thoguht she would hear her daughter say she did not want McDonalds.  Especially when Matilda Smith's preference was to eat vegetables from the garden.    This was magic to the ears of Edible School Gardens Leonie Shanahan, who has transformed the eating habits of students from 14 schools across the Coast... Read More
Digabout - Permaculture Garden 10 September 09   Check out tfay's blog, on cBlog [OLR Community Blog].  Wednesday was a Gardener's dream as parents and students got together to create our very own Permaculture Garden.  Click on the picture below to view a timelapse video of the day's fun . (18 Mb so you better be keen!)... Read More
Garden of dreams 26 August 09   LEONIE Shanahan eyed off the garden lying fallow at her children’s school. She saw weeds and soil needing work, but in her mind’s eye, she could see children digging, planting, picking and eating their own fruit and vegetables. And she sawwhere her future lay. “At that moment, I decided what I was going to do with my horticultural qualifications,” she said. Read More
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