We invite you to complete this survey to help us understand how schools in Victoria procure, use and dispose of food and how COVID-19 restrictions has impacted your school’s food related programs. Please note, if your school does NOT have a canteen, we would still like you to complete the survey. The results of the survey will help to identify opportunities for Farm-to-School programs.  A Farm-to-School Program brings local produce into schools and teaches students about nutrition through fun, experiential learning. In this survey, we want to find out more about 4 food themes at your school, including:   

1. Food growing practices: if you grow fruits or vegetables or keep chickens for example

2. Food preparation and school canteens: this includes when and where students eat and how the canteen is managed.

3. School food disposal practices including where you dispose of food waste.   

4. The impacts COVID-19, if any, on your school food system and the support your school needs in this space.  

Deakin University ethics have approved this study [HEAG-H 186_2020]. Please note that participation in this research project is voluntary. Your participation in this survey will remain anonymous. Responding to this survey should take approximately 15 minutes.   

If you are interested in participating in a pilot Farm-to-School program, please provide your contact details where requested. Providing your contact details is not signalling commitment to the pilot, merely expressing interest in further engagement with the project. You or your school will not be identified in any outputs from this survey.    

Please find further details regarding the project and the Plain Language Statement below for you to download.  If you have any further questions you can contact Dr Sonia Nuttman snuttman@deakin.edu.au or Dr Alison Booth alison.booth@deakin.edu.au at Deakin University.