Kitchen Garden

Crown Street Public School’s well-established Kitchen Garden program is run year-round by an amazing team of volunteer parents. Each week a different class has their turn at growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing delicious food. Students learn about the environment, sustainability, nutrition, and developing positive food habits. They help maintain the organic gardens, and cook in the schools’ own kitchen classroom, discovering new flavours and ingredients. It’s a fun, hands-on experience where students gain important life-skills in gardening, composting, cooking and teamwork.

We welcome parent volunteers or local chefs to drop in and host a kitchen class. Reach out if you’d like to be involved. Working with our Kitchen Garden Leads Alex & Jill you’ll create a loved or favourite recipe using seasonal vegetables grown right inside our school and cared for by our students. It’s a rewarding and joyful experience.

 The garden has an important history in our schools story started by parents Jane & Jeremy Strode a cook book was created - originally published in 2010, Crown Street Cooks features over 140 recipes from the school community, plus Bill Granger, Mark Best, Luke Nguyen, Kylie Kwong, Alex Herbert, Jane and Jeremy Strode.

In 2019 the cookbook was repreinted and it still known and loved throughout the community. Filled with over 125 recipes ideal for special gatherings and parties, CROWN STREET CELEBRATES is the much-anticipated sequel to CROWN STREET COOKS™, a fundraising cookbook published by the parents of Surry Hills' Crown Street Public School in 2010. It became a local ‘best seller’ with more than 7,000 copies sold to date. Celebrating the school’s 170th birthday, the new publication will be released 1st November 2019.