Voting Has Closed!
Thank you to everyone who voted for the People's Choice Award in this year's School Vege Challenge! We're very pleased with how well all the schools have performed and look forward to announcing the results of the competition soon.
People's Choice Leaderboard
Latest from the Vege Challenge:
The Challenge Is On!
March 24, 2023
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22 schools in the 2023 challenge have received their starter kits. We are excited to see progress as they send photos through and we upload to their profiles below.
Check out the profile of each school below to see where their gardens are up to.
We (Springvale Garden Centre) are looking forward to doing a mid-point check-in visiting many of the school's gardens in late April.
Participating Schools for 2023
Click on the summaries below to see the photos and info for each school participating in the School Vege Challenge 2023.
Marton School
We are an enviro-school and as part of that we have a vegetable garden, compost, nursery & 2 year old orchard established.
Kaitoke School
We have just started a gardening club that the children can join. We’ve done lots of clearing out to make space for our garden.
Bulls School
We’re working towards several projects within the school with gardening using vegetables, flowers, composting and worm farms.
Gonville School
The students loved the 2023 Challenge and keep asking to do it again. We are currently growing kūmara for puanga and would love to expand.
Hunterville School
We have a lot of students who are very hungry by lunchtime so our aim is to create a garden big enough to feed our school at lunchtime!
Valley Homeschool
Our families have a passion for looking after the land, the children enjoy seeing seedlings sprout up and this encourages them to get involved.
Castlecliff School
We are excited to be part of this new partnership. We are trying to teach life skills, while also providing vegetables to our whanau.
St. Dominic’s College
We would love to participate in the programme, as the students enjoyed the competition last year and made a lot of progress in their garden.
Mosston School
We have many learners who are interested in gardening, with a dedicated Green Team who love learning about and caring for our environment.
St. John’s Hill School
We value empowering students to learn to grow their own kai sustainably. This year we are establishing some new gardens.
Rutherford Junior High
We aim to provide opportunities for hands-on learning. Moving our students to eat and love their own fresh produce.
Brunswick School
We strive to involve the students in the journey of garden-to-table by sending home harvests for students to share with their whanau.
Aranui School
We have students who are very keen on gardening and we have a supportive group of parents working with them to build their knowledge.
Carlton School
We’d love to develop a full program – composting, planting, harvesting, cooking, sharing kai and plants with whanau etc.
Churton School
Children will be taught to look after and nurture the garden. They can learn about different types of vegetables and what they can be used for.
Older Vege Challenge News:
2023 School Vege Challenge Registrations Open
November 17, 2022
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After two successful years of encouraging our children to get out into the garden and grow their own food, we’re ready to kick off the School Vege Challenge for 2023.
Winners Announced!
June 23, 2022
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We have been absolutely thrilled with the engagement and participation of so many schools keen to teach their students gardening.
The results really show!
Mid-Contest Check In
May 31, 2022
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We’ve been to visit the participating schools to check in on their progress. Take a look at what’s been happening.
Vege Challenge Kits Delivered
February 17, 2022
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The last week has been super busy as we’ve been dropping off starter kits to our 16 local Whanganui Schools for the 2022 School Vege Challenge.
2022 School Vege Challenge Getting Going
February 2, 2022
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Entries closed on Monday 31st January and we are excited to have the following 16 schools on board for the 2022 challenge.
2022 School Vege Challenge Registrations Open
December 6, 2021
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We learned a lot from running the first edition of the Vege Challenge in 2021 and have made some improvements to the structure of the competition and the criteria for judging.
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