Monthly Archives: March 2019

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival River Graze

MFWFAs part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is participating in the Festival River Graze at the Southbank promenade on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th March. We want all strolling foodlovers that weekend to stop and chat with some of our staff, to watch our young volunteers make tomato passata workshops, and to help us raise money to further support our many kitchen garden schools and early learning centres.

My friend Maggie Beer has agreed to come by and both Maggie and I will be on hand for a few hours on each day to enthuse the children and spread the word to the general public of the importance of doing what we can to promote the spread of pleasurable food education in schools and early learning centres to as many Australian children as possible.

Newsletter 59 – Exciting announcements and cooking highlights

North Melbourne announcement-2On Tuesday March 5 at North Melbourne Primary School the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party and Shadow Education Minister, Tanya Plibersek, and the Shadow Health Minister Catherine King announced that, if elected, the ALP would commit $6 million dollars to restore Federal funding to this inspirational and life-changing program. (Federal funding existed under the Gillard government but was discontinued by the Abbot, Turnbull and Morrison governments.)   (more…)