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-Nature’s cycles (seasons, the water cycle, plant photosynthesis)

-Healthy soils and helpful critters (worms, microbes, pollinators)

-Compost (transforming food scraps and garden waste back into nutritious soil)

-Embracing wonky fruit and veg (using all parts, pickling, preserving)

-Zero waste (how can we produce less rubbish?)

Despite only being able to choose one entry for our final poster, we received so many amazing entries, and we just had to share some of our favorites and the final poster selection.

A big congratulations to Mia C from Brighton Primary School who took out the winning spot (as seen at the top) with votes from the 24 Carrot team! 

We are thankful for everyone who went to the effort to create something and think about all the magic materials we have around us!

At this year’s 24 Carrot Carnival in November, Year 3 and 4 students will celebrate the incredible resources our planet provides, and ways we can use them wisely. 

Our Carnival will consolidate learnings from Material Institute workshops, kitchen garden sessions at school sites, and classroom learning throughout the year. Through immersive performances and activities, we will explore waste minimisation, regeneration, and circular thinking — learning from nature’s own cycles. From reducing rubbish and cleaning up our spaces, to using and re-using materials creatively, we will discover how small actions can make a big impact.

For our Carnival poster design, we extended an invitation to Year 3 and 4 students to design an eye-catching poster for this year’s Carnival, exploring our theme of MAGIC MATERIALS.

At this year’s 24 Carrot Carnival in November, Year 3 and 4 students will celebrate the incredible resources our planet provides, and ways we can use them wisely.

High school students mingle during lunch time.

Rolling up the fabric ready for the hot pot.

“It was fantastic to see students who do not usually readily

engage with learning participate with such enthusiasm. The highly

practical nature of the activities was a key contributor to this.”

— Assistant Principal, Jordan River Senior School

Workshop activities included some talented folk facilitating cultural burning, natural dyeing, making biochar, bokashi compost making. With healthy cooking from the garden and ice-cream making using dry ice with Chef Vlad, seed saving and propagation with our horticulture team, ceramics with our art team, and making a Beeluxe Body Bar in our Beauty Lab with Bodie. We also had an epic music lineup, with a special act playing each day including Atomic Deluxe, Rose Turtle Ertler and Tiff Norchick.

Bokashi compost making requires all hands in.

Learning about healing country with Jason Smith.

Learning how to propagate with our horticultural team.

“In here [clay studio] I feel good. It is relaxing and I have freedom

to think of new things to make which is pretty cool. Natural

Science was interwoven with art throughout the week, and a communal long-table lunch was shared. It was an enriching four days, and the feedback from the participating schools has been heart-warming!

“The majority of students enjoyed their day thoroughly,

with some still talking about it a couple of weeks later.”

Biochar preparations, only adding when the kiln needs more feed stock.

We would love to thank our 24 Carrot Garden team member Andy Rushton for his mighty effort in bringing this all together as well as all the team members working hard behind the scenes, and the following businesses and people for sharing their knowledge and skills with us all.

Cultural Burning - Palawa man and traditional fire practitioner Jason Andrew-Smith

Natural Dyeing -  Coralee / Inspired By Nature

Biochar - Christina Guidici / The New Black Biochar

Bokashi compost - Jimmy Corrigan / The Regenerative Gardener

National Science Week is Australia’s major national celebration of the sciences each year in August.

This year Material Institute and 24 Carrot Gardens hosted a Science Week extravaganza over 4 days at Material Institute, out in Bridgewater.

“​​The learning was great and it was wrapped up beautifully in the different activities.

Surrounding the kids with so many passionate, respectful, understanding adults was gold.”

We invited our four 24 Carrot Garden high schools – Bayview Secondary College, Jordan River Learning Federation Senior School, Kingston High School, and Montrose Bay High School – to participate in eight workshop offerings with themes of ecology, innovation, sustainability, waste minimisation, regeneration and circular thinking. Up to 50 students visited each day, and the interactive, hands-on workshops were delivered by staff and industry leaders in their fields.

24 Carrot Carnival Poster Comp