Food Plant Solutions Australia

Food Plant Solutions Australia created educational materials that explain what nutritional food is, why our bodies need it and how to grow and use it. It focuses on what are often neglected and underutilized plants, plants that are growing in and adapted to their environment, and are high in the most beneficial nutrients. 

The Food Plant Solutions materials are designed to empower people, but particularly women, so that they can make informed choices on what plants to grow and eat that will nutritiously feed themselves and their families. This project is cost effective, proven to work, sustainable and enables self-sufficiency.

Develop a Community or School Garden

• Malnutrition reduces. Some programs have seen reductions between 80-95%.
• The students at the schools enjoy the benefits of the plants they have grown as they are provided with a nutritious lunch at school.Initially children only tend the plants at school, but within a short time-frame they can be provided with seeds to take home and plant there. Families then start to grow more of their own plants and vegetables.
• The skills the children learn will benefit them should they become farmers.
• Schools save money from not having to buy food, which allows this money to be redirected to other necessities for the school.
• School enrollments increase as parents feel more confident in the school’s ability to provide for their children nutritionally and give them safe clean meals. This in turns frees up parents to increase their household income as they have more time to work when their children are at school for the full day.