Fruit 4 Schools Project

Sharing: Not only do we encourage kids/students to grow & share this with other families and community less fortunate but also collect unwanted fruit & veges from school neighborhoods for kids to eat during the day and take home.

Recycling: 90,000 tonnes of garden waste is dumped in Auckland’s waste centre every year. Most of which can be used to nourish fruit, vegetables and herb gardens. In the low-Decile primary schools, 48 percent of the primary school kids and 64 percent of secondary students came to school without any lunch at all. (Campbell Live, 2015).

Dream: One girl's dream to combine used coffee grinds from coffee drinking culture & feed kids is becoming a reality. Miss Braxtyn Hunt (young student) sat one day at a coffee shop and noticed the endless consumption of coffee being made. She also noticed the waste i.e. used coffee grinds.

Light bulb moment: What if I could recycle the coffee grinds as fertilizer to grow herbs, fruit, vegetables and kids can shared at school? What if kids were educated to grow at home or anywhere?

If I could box this up I can give it to every student to start growing. What about the wasted fruit in backyards that never get used?

The Fruit 4 School Project:

a) Is a gift box that is distributed across New Zealand schools, for children to grow herbs, vegetables or fruit on their kitchen windowsill and then harvest and share with their schools and wider community.

b) Communities Project encourages households to donate to their local schools (contact us for more information).

Each box contains:

1 x Bag of used coffee grinds

1 x Bag of Organic soil

1 x Herbs, Fruit and Vegetable Seeds (one per box)

1 x Ceramic cup (plant pot)*

1 x Plant tag.

"Grow & share ... everywhere!"