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    PLANTING SEEDS OF Knowledge

    Oct 31, 2018 4 minutes
    WORDS & PHOTOS: SANDRA TUSZYNSKA

    Benarkin Primary State School, near Blackbutt, an hour-and-a-half north-west of Brisbane, has had a gardening program for eight years now involving an average of 24 students in classes K–6.

    This beautiful and resourceful kitchen-garden education facility is under the watchful eye of Chris James, a leading teacher aide and passionate folk artist, gardener and educator. Chris grew up on a dairy farm in Buderim and has always had a connection to nature and soil through gardening.

    The school garden is a reflection of Chris’s wealth of horticultural knowledge. This school is incorporating the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program and received a $60,000 government grant to purchase raised garden beds, connect the garden to a drip-irrigation

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