00:02Filing into class for a lesson with a twist. These students are learning to grow their own vegetables from seed
00:09to harvest.
00:11We're all just so shocked at how big they've grown so quickly.
00:14This Gold Coast High School is one of 68 across the country benefiting from a high-tech greenhouse set up
00:20by a non-profit to tackle food insecurity.
00:23This is not a handout, this is not free food, this is food that children have grown and nurtured.
00:30The greenhouse is not just for growing veggies. Students are putting classroom lessons into practice.
00:36It's science as well, using the AI, how it's made, how the water goes through it.
00:43Smell, smell coriander.
00:45As well as sparking a passion for cooking.
00:48I love being able to cook food for different people that actually comes from our school.
00:52Teaching the kids how to grow veggies is just the start of the lessons.
00:56Because the research suggests that this kind of hands-on learning has benefits well beyond the garden.
01:03For some students, it's a new reason to come to school.
01:06We've seen incredible attendance lifts. In some cases, in one particular school, from 30% to 90% attendance on
01:17food latter days.
01:18It actually gives them purpose and a reason to be at school.
01:22School belonging is a really critical factor in terms of success.
01:27Growing food, confidence and connection.
01:30Is necessary, at least almost every day in the strange environment and a natural situation.
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01:30We'll certainly do our operation and we keep on charting in track
01:31It's up to
01:31For H3N who does impact your olur and demand.
01:31A lot of thanks to the results.
01:31We're doing careers too.
01:32Can we take moo channels?
