Powerhouse Parramatta Launches New Partnership with Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation

Powerhouse Parramatta has announced a landmark partnership with the internationally recognised Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, a dynamic new space for food education, sustainability and community.

Each year the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program will provide up to 10,000 regional NSW and Western Sydney primary school students with hands-on learning across agricultural science, cooking, sustainability and wellbeing.

Delivered through Powerhouse’s Lang Walker Family Academy, the museum’s immersive student learning program, the initiative will embed the Foundation’s evidence-based, syllabus-focused approach into the museum’s education offering. Students will grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, affordable and diverse food while building their understanding of environmental responsibility and leadership.

With sweeping views across Parramatta and greater Sydney, the rooftop will bring together a productive garden, the ING Pavilion, a greenhouse and an Indigenous garden. The kitchen garden will also be supported by the Vitocco Kitchen, a 200-seat demonstration kitchen designed for hands-on cooking and learning experiences.

Founder of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, Stephanie Alexander AO said, ‘I am absolutely delighted to see the Kitchen Garden Program represented at Powerhouse Parramatta.

For more than twenty years, our vision has been to give every child in Australia the confidence, skills and joy that come from growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing fresh food. This partnership allows us to extend that opportunity to thousands more young people each year in Western Sydney, offering a unique learning environment where food, culture, sustainability and creativity come together, helping young people build essential life skills and meaningful connections to the environment and to one another.’

Powerhouse Chief Executive Lisa Havilah said, ‘This new partnership with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation will embed impactful and special experiences for young people across Western Sydney and regional NSW. It will add a new dimension to the Lang Walker Family Academy and contribute to our community’s understanding of food and its ecologies for many generations to come.’