About TUSA’s Food Education Initiative: Let’s Get Nourished
We are so excited to launch our FREE Food Education Project. Let’s Get Nourished with Food Hub is part of our 3-year TUSA Food Resilience Program, offering transformative solutions to students who are experiencing the effects of the relentless rise in living costs! We have designed this program to empower students with essential knowledge and practical skills in nutrition, cooking, gardening, food preservation, and sustainable practices!
You will learn basic cooking skills alongside learning all about how to nourish your body, to help you feel your best and improve educational outcomes! You will walk away at the end of each class with new skills, recipes, tips and tricks and best of all, delicious freshly prepared food!
Semester 2 Food Education Schedule:
Garden Workshop #1 Soil, Compost and Bed Preparation
Learn about key concepts relating to soil, compost and garden bed preparation. Basics of applied soil science, pH testing, approaches to composting and how to improve soil for the best growing conditions.
Have lunch at The Source afterwards!
Garden Workshop #2 Planting and Plant Care
Applied plant science – providing useful information for choosing, raising, planting and supporting plants over time. This will include raising methods, companion planting, and pest management. We will also head outside to plant a selection of seedlings in the beds we prepared in the earlier workshop.
Ditch Jar Sauces
We are going to learn how to make a more nutritious and delicious version of our favourite jar sauces. It’ll be so easy and delicious, that you’ll never go back to buying it from the shelf. And you’ll be inspired to make your own homemade version of all jar sauces at home!
Let’s rethink food with the Planetary Diet!
Kristin from The Sustainability Integration Program for Students (SIPS) at Utas is going to tell us her findings from her SIPS project, can we eat for both our own health and the planet’s health, on a budget? Using her chef background, she’s going to teach us the practical skills on how to make delicious food that is good for us and for the planet!
Food Fermentation, get more bang for your buck with a happy gut!
Chef and Utas Nutrition Science Alumni, Kristin is back to teach us how we can keep our gut and our wallet happy with fermented goodness. Think kimchi, kombucha, sauerkraut, yoghurt and all of that good stuff. We’re going to learn how to make it and then what to serve it with.
Bush Foods Workshop with palawa kipli catering.
We are excited to have Kitana joining us and teaching us how to embrace Tasmanian Aboriginal food in our state. Kitana will show us 10 native plants and speak about uses traditionally and modern uses. She will show us tools and roles of food harvesting and hunting, ways to cook with native plants at home. This workshop includes activities, quiz and team challenges around knowledge of bush foods.
Save the Harvest!
Where we learn to cook smart, and use what we have. Through food preservation techniques, we can waste less, save money and be kinder to the planet. We will learn techniques like pickling, dehydrating, making paneer, yoghurt balls, pestos, and sauces (this list is not exhaustive)! All of these techniques add flavour to your meals and makes your food tastier, whilst saving your dollars, it’s a win win!
Garden Workshop #3 Harvesting, Cooking and Future Thinking.
We will harvest the plants we have grown and cook them in a seasonal, shared meal. We will have a garden tour of Source Eco Hub and discuss the design principles in action. We will discuss what we would like to do with our newly developed skills.
Let’s Get Nourished with Food Hub is FREE thanks to the support from City of Hobart and The Tasmanian Community Fund.
City of Hobart, Urban Sustainability Grant
$10,000 granted in support of the Food Education Project.
The Tasmanian Community Fund, Community Action Grant
$50,000 granted in support of the Food Education project. The Tasmanian Community Fund is an independent Fund that supports and strengthens Tasmanian communities by distributing funds to those communities.