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A fresh start for Katherine youth |
| 27 September 2011 |
 Mission Australia is giving young people in Katherine a fresh approach to food with through a new community garden project.The project aims to reconnect youth from the Northern Territory town and surrounding communities with nature and sustainable food production. “The project provides a positive environment of learning and alternative recreational activities for local youth,” said Mission Australia Youth Services Coordinator Ruth Cardier.” “We created the garden in Mission Australia’s Katherine office car park. We turned a space that was a weed infested wasteland into a vibrant vegie patch. “There are over 50 youth aged 10 to 16 years who have participated in the project so far. They come in small groups of five to eight a few times a week.” The community garden started five months ago in collaboration with the Katherine’s Department of Health (DOH) and Katherine High School. DOH nutritionist Kate Robertson has taught the teenagers in the project ways of living healthy and how to cook food using produce from the garden. Katherine High School is helping the participants make the step from community garden project to the school’s Horticultural Program by providing space for Mission Australia to extend their program onto the grounds of the high school. “We are really trying to help more youth re-engage with high school and getting them interested in gardening is just another way,” said Ms Cardier. “The young people love watering the plants and enjoy planting and eating the garden produce. “We had our first vegie harvest of eggplants recently, which we cooked up, under the guidance of Kate, in an eggplant and pasta dish.” Young people in the project are from Katherine, Kalano, Binjari and Rockhole communities. The Community Garden is growing corn, silverbeet, tomatoes, peas, beans, squash, watermelons, a variety of herbs and lots more. “We incorporated the ideas from the young people of what they would like us to grow.”  |
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