Evaluating the Garden to Table program

We know that encouraging kids to eat their veges is important. But Garden to Table goes further, it goes into schools, helping them set up vegetable gardens, grow their own produce and then cook and eat it at school. Volunteers and staff support the project. The Healthy Families Future Trust has brought Garden to Table to low decile schools in Wellington, and we have a golden opportunity to document what a difference this makes to the children, by evaluating it. CEDOR and HFFT are working together to see if it makes kids more likely to eat vegetables, try new foods and improve the quality of their diets. With this evaluation we can then campaign to have the program included in more schools.