A JOINT project between St Stephen’s School in Duncraig and Culunga Aboriginal Community School in West Swan is bearing fruit.
Ten St Stephen’s Year 6 pupils have started a vegetable garden at the community school, encouraging its 70 students to make healthy food choices.
They had a Department of Indigenous Affairs grant for the project and Channel Nine’s Garden Gurus provided advice, help, soil conditioner, plants and reticulation.
The Swan Valley Rotary Club fenced the garden to keep out kangaroos and rabbits.
The students celebrated Naidoc Week by planting more vegetables and fruit and painting pavers between garden beds.
As Culunga provides breakfast and lunch for its students, the next step is lessons — and a recipe book — on how to prepare simple, cheap and healthy meals using foods they have grown.
Culunga pupils plan to give their Duncraig counterparts Nyoongar language lessons.