Our Bush Tucker Garden
The Sustainable Schools Grant has enabled us to realise our dream of a Bush Tucker Garden. Adam Tietz is a horticulturalist and as part of our parent community he has helped us design and built a beautiful bush-like space using 100% native Australian plants. The garden is in a central location for all to use and admire. Children are learning about sustainability when we look at Aboriginal traditional practices. We discuss native plants and why they are more sustainable and we learn about how these plants are used for food, medicines, tools and more and have been used by Aboriginal peoples for thousands of years. We hope to use bush tucker in our kitchen garden program.
Students in Year 6 researched plants and provided this page with loads of information about each plant.
These reports are QR coded and you can find plant identification signs with these QR codes in the garden.
Bush Tucker Garden
The Bush Tucker Garden project started long before the Sustainable Schools Grant was won. In 2020, our Aboriginal students researched Bush Tucker garden designs and after inspecting the area submitted their own creative ideas for the space.
Many of the plants chosen are native to the Central Coast area. All plants have purpose in the garden including traditional food, medicine, tool making and soil stabilising.
We acknowledge the Darkinjung people as the traditional custodians of the land the bush tucker garden is situated.
When something is grown locally and naturally it is sustainable
Did you know?
Research shows that Australian Bush Foods have an extremely high concentration of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
