Festive gifts for kitchen garden fans
Check out our selection of stunning gift ideas for food lovers and green thumbs. There are cookbooks to elevate your kitchen game, spices to add a punch to your festive lunch, and garden guides for nurturing plump produce.
These handpicked goodies are designed and produced by friends of the Kitchen Garden Foundation, each of them sharing our passion for good food and great gardens. No affiliate links here – the red buttons take you straight to our pal’s shops! Be sure to confirm each seller’s cut-off date for delivery before 25 December.
Stephanie Alexander | Fresh (signed copy + free designer apron)
Stephanie Alexander’s newest cookbook Fresh is a beautiful showcase of more than 120 veggie-forward recipes, that children in the Kitchen Garden Program have cooked with flair. Try Stephanie’s carrot fritters from Fresh in our Kitchen Garden Month recipe collection. Every copy of Fresh sold through the Foundation is signed by Stephanie and features a limited-edition bookmark. Order before 13 December and we’ll include a designer apron, for free! All proceeds from sales in our online shop support the work of the Foundation.
📷 Pictured: 'Fresh' resting on 'Field of Dreams' tablecloth by Kip&Co (see below).
Paul Bangay | A Life in Garden Design
This lavish memoir reveals the creative process behind one of Australia’s best-known garden designers, Paul Bangay. Paul served on the Kitchen Garden Foundation board for ten years, and regularly opened the gates to his Victorian property, the stunning Stonefields, for unique Kitchen Garden Foundation fundraisers.
Cornersmith | Food Savers A-Z
Food Saver's A-Z: The essential Cornersmith kitchen companion is a handbook produced by preserving enthusiast, and pioneer in the war on food waste, Alex Elliott-Howery, and food writer and educator Jaimee Edwards. Alongside fellow sustainable food production devotee, James Grant, Alex owns Cornersmith in Marrickville, NSW which is a must-visit café, picklery, and cooking school. Cornersmith contributed clever preserving tips from Food Savers A-Z, to our Kitchen Garden Month recipe collection.
The Diggers Club | 3 year garden journal
Becoming a better gardener is about learning from your surroundings and one of the best ways to record and document your experience is in a gardening journal! The Diggers Club 3 year garden journal encourages you to start in any month you like, enter your dates and refer back at exactly the same time each year to learn from your mistakes and repeat your successes. This journal will become one of your most trusted gardening resources. The Foundation’s partnership with The Diggers Club allows Kitchen Garden Program schools and early childhood services to access a free two-year Diggers membership.
Fruit Nerd | Don't Buy Fruit & Veg Without Me!
Need help picking and tackling a pomegranate for your festive lunch? Thanh Truong, aka the Fruit Nerd, will show you how, in this gorgeous guide for choosing and preparing the best produce. We love the Fruit Nerd and had a blast presenting with him at Little Food Festival in 2022.
Buy Don't Buy Fruit & Veg Without Me!
Ghostpatrol | Apple Fanclub pin
Express your love for the humble apple with the sweetest mini wearable art piece from much-loved artist David Booth, AKA Ghostpatrol. Sshhh… top secret… we’re very excited to be collaborating with David in 2024. Watch this space!
Natalie Jeffcott | Beatrix Bakes art print
Pal and protégé of Stephanie Alexander, Nat Paull opened the beloved North Melbourne bakery Beatrix Bakes in 2011. Nat now sells whole cakes online and is about to launch her second cookbook. The main draw at Beatrix Bakes was of course the divine cakes (with queues often snaking around the block of the tiny shop) but fans also loved Nat’s collection of vintage eggbeaters, gorgeously captured here by Melbourne photographer Natalie Jeffcott. All profits from sales of this art print are donated to Djirra – supporting indigenous women and children. Also available as a tea towel.
Buy Beatrix Bakes beaters art print
Kip&Co | Field of Dreams tablecloth
This French flax linen tablecloth, from our friends at Kip&Co, is a dream! The floral design celebrates nature's beauty, and it’s perfect for setting the scene at your festive table. Field of Dreams is also available on tea towels, aprons, oven mitts and napkins.
📷 Pictured: 'Field of Dreams' tablecloth in Stephanie Alexander's beautiful garden. Read the story and see more glorious images here.
Buy Field of Dreams tablecloth
Mabu Mabu | Sweet spice trio
Transform your festive baking with three incredible Indigenous spices – cinnamon myrtle, strawberry gum and lemon myrtle. Mabu Mabu’s Nornie Bero is a chef and passionate speaker who has delivered a range of informative, fun Program Enrichment Workshops for our members, guiding educators in the use of Indigenous ingredients. Nornie also contributed a delightful damper recipe to our Kitchen Garden Month recipe collection.
Kat Macleod | ABC Fruit Salad
Explore the ABCs in a colourful journey of knobbly quince, spiky jackfruit, and more fruity faves in this beautiful picture book for babies and toddlers. Kat’s Early Learner books feature playful themes, simple narratives, minimal text, and bright illustrations – the perfect start for little ones! This series includes 123 Under the Sea, Colours in the Garden and Shapes at the Party.
📷 Pictured, the Foundation’s Natasha reading 'ABC Fruit Salad' to a room of enthralled little learners at Hawthorn Early Years.
Hannah Moloney | Good Life Growing
You'll find everything you need to hone your skills and grow fresh food all year round, in this bountiful guide from Gardening Australia presenter Hannah Moloney. Hannah generously collaborated with a Kitchen Garden Program school, Foundation staff and local community members, for a working bee of learning, food and fun, to create a beautiful Indigenous garden.
Alice Oehr | Artichoke to Zucchini
Alice’s latest book features an alphabet of delish things from around the world, from avocados to zeppole, and everything in between. We just love Alice’s vibrant celebrations of fresh produce (and cakes!). Artichoke to Zucchini is also available as a delightful tea towel.
Jac Semmler | The Super Bloom Handbook (signed copy)
Flower Power! From bearded irises to zinnias, this is a gorgeous guide to 40 of the most beautiful and easy-to-grow flowers for small spaces and tricky climates. Jac is a passionate plant practitioner, who presented a popular Program Enrichment Workshop for our members.
Buy The Super Bloom Handbook (signed)
Annie Smithers | Recipe for a Kinder Life (signed copy)
In this generous account of life on the land and in the kitchen, trailblazing cook Annie Smithers chronicles her quest for a more sustainable existence. Annie, who became Stephanie Alexander’s apprentice in 1984, is a generous supporter of the Foundation, baking literally thousands of scones for us to sell at our Stonefields Open Garden fundraising events.
Buy Recipe for a Kinder Life (signed)
Warndu | First Nations Food Companion
Warndu is an Indigenous-owned company pioneering a native food revolution. Their ground-breaking First Nations Food Companion is a beautifully-designed guide to more than 60 of the most accessible Indigenous ingredients, including recipes, flavour profiles and tips for how to buy, grow and store. Warndu contributed a beautiful soup recipe from First Nations Food Companion to our Kitchen Garden Month recipe collection.
Buy First Nations Food Companion
Alice Zaslavsky | In Praise of Veg
Acclaimed author and food literacy advocate, Alice Zaslavsky is a loyal Kitchen Garden Foundation supporter and was a popular keynote speaker at our inaugural Big PD Day in 2018. In Praise of Veg is a fully illustrated guide to 50 vegetable varieties, with 150+ recipes. Like a sample? Alice contributed a sensational seasonal recipe from In Praise of Veg to our Kitchen Garden Month recipe collection.
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