Greytown School pupils are learning the delicious art of making a meal using vegetables grown in a garden they helped tend.
Deputy principal Neil Preston said Year 7 and 8 pupils had yesterday gathered before the mobile Kids Can Cook Kitchen with culinary tutor Chris Fortune and learnt the finer points of creating a vegetable pilaf dish comprising ingredients like broad beans, peas, corn, silverbeet, tomatoes and other produce, with some of the produce grown in the school gardens where the temporary kitchen was laid out.
Mr Preston said Year 3, 4 and 5 pupils will take their turn cooking and taste-testing a meal today during the third annual visit of chef Fortune to the school.
"He always teaches about healthy eating and the ingredients come from our garden. It's all about educating kids and getting them to try out these same dishes at home. They get to help and watch the meal being made and they get to take that recipe home.
The pupils are led through the meal preparation using added information about where the meal was developed, its history, and fun facts behind the vegetables that were used like the links between courgettes and cucumbers and the "silk" found on an ear of corn.
