Damien and Alana Billington Vandervloet enjoy some of the new bush food plants.
Teaching students about the benefits of the bush food garden is Landcare's Caroline Hammond.
Alana Billington Vandervloet enjoys some of the new bush food plants.
Hayley Bachelor gets close and personal with some of the new plants.
It's been a team effort to get Warragul Primary School's new bush food garden up and running. Enjoying the new garden are student representatives (from left) Josh Netzer, Nate O'Dwyer, Summer Netzer, Mieke Earwicker, Lenny Gilbert, Clara Nash, Marcie Palmer, Abel De Haas, Charlotte Millet, Arabella London, Lily Perrins, Ruby Dane, Kate Tzitziras, Dante De Haas and Wren Boulton.
Enjoying the setting of the new bush food garden are Peppermint Ridge Farm's Andrew Hooper and Julie Weatherhead, Landcare's Caroline Hammond and Warragul Primary School science teacher Julieanne Myers.
Damien Billington Vandervloet can't wait to dig into some of the bush foods in the garden.
Maya Christensen is all smiles as she interacts with the bush food garden.
Peppermint Ridge Farm's Andrew Hooper talks to students at Warragul North Primary School about their new garden.
Warragul Primary School celebrated the opening of its new bush food garden with a special ceremony on Thursday.
The garden, part of the not-for-profit group Landcare's "Learning with Landcare" program, took an unused garden bed and filled it with a new range of native bush food species.
It was planted two weeks ago by student council representatives across all grades at the school, with all plants donated by Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network and Peppermint Ridge Farm.
With students independently caring for the plants, the hope is they will be able to see the fruits of their labours in the months to come.
Native bush foods specialist Julie Weatherhead and Peppermint Ridge Farm's Anthony Hooper visited the school to teach students about the plants and just how delicious they can be.
After learning how to plant the different varieties, students had the chance to taste the plants in action when they were given a finger lime cordial and lemon myrtle Anzac biscuits.
"A garden needs to be used and appreciated," Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network facilitator and project officer Caroline Hammond said.
"And these plants will thrive when being harvested (pruned) regularly. I was so impressed to see the student council representatives at Warragul Primary really enjoying tasting and smelling the variety of plants we have planted."
Other local primary schools involved in the program include Willow Grove Primary School and Warragul Regional College.
