Board chairman of Self Help Nathan Calman and Mayor Mat Garwood open the new Self Help greenhouse, a joint Self Help Life Skills and Launceston Council Community Grants program initiative. Video Rod Thompson
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00:00 So the greenhouse is the latest addition to the facilities here at Self-Help and the kitchen
00:11 garden provides a wonderful opportunity for our team to learn gardening skills and the
00:17 produce will then go on to be used in the kitchen behind us in Self-Help.
00:22 The kitchen garden is an important part of Self-Help's Life Skills Program.
00:28 The Life Skills Program supports our employees to learn independent living skills such as
00:34 safe food preparation, menu planning and making healthy food choices.
00:40 So this is one of the initiatives that's come through our Community Grants Program which
00:44 is a really great way to see how those programs literally go and grow into ways of benefiting
00:51 through to the betterment of the community.
00:54 So we've got some raised garden beds, so the team here are growing lots of different crops
01:00 that will then be used in the kitchen inside.
01:04 Today I think we saw some corn, some tomatoes, some beans but also lots of seeds germinating
01:09 ready to go in the beds over the coming months.
01:11 over the coming months.
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