The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program is outstanding in the way it gets kids involved hands on in the growing of produce and then cooking using this produce.

And as the renowned chef and author said herself on a visit to the school last week, children will eat spinach pie or broccoli frittata - no mean feat in this day and age of fast food chains and junk food.

Childhood obesity is a catch-phrase that is thrown around often, but it is a very real problem and one which is being addressed by this program.

Children will never know how good healthy fresh food tastes unless they are shown how delicious it can be.

And when they grow the produce themselves and then learn how to cook with it, it becomes so much more meaningful.

These life lessons are then taken home to mum and dad; perhaps a vegie garden is established in the back yard, perhaps a child will offer to cook pumpkin soup - the seeds have been planted.