ORGANIC GROWTH: Sava Dobra-Garrett, 8, of Wooli Public School appears in an upcoming episode of TV show GET Grubby TV. Photo: Adam Hourigan
ORGANIC GROWTH: Sava Dobra-Garrett, 8, of Wooli Public School appears in an upcoming episode of TV show GET Grubby TV. Photo: Adam Hourigan

Young green thumb gets his hands dirty on TV

SAVA Dobra-Garrett of Wooli is one of several Clarence Valley kids to star in a new TV show produced by the creators of dirtgirlworld, Cate McQuillan and Hewey Eustace.

Filmed on location in Yamba, Townsend and Whiporie, GET Grubby TV is a celebration of gardens and spending time outside.

A lively eight-year-old, Sava is no stranger to growing food.

A year three student of Wooli Public School, Sava helps tend the school's award winning garden as well as his family's veggie patch at home.

"Our school won an award for the best garden in the Clarence Valley," Sava said with pride.

"We grow all sorts of things and we make healthy lunch orders, salads and other foods, out of our wonderful garden."

He said his favourite foods include parsley, nasturtiums, beetroot, and passionfruit. He's also pretty keen on mulberries.

"We have a friend with a mulberry tree and we visit once a week to climb onto the roof of the shed where all the mulberries fall and we collect as many as we can carry," he said.

He also said his Dad had a great way to control caterpillars in his own garden.

"Dad gets us to find three caterpillars each and when we do we get a lolly," said Sava.

Get Grubby TV welcomes the return of Maree Lowes as the gum-boot wearing dirtgirl and Michael Balk in the role of her recycling friend scrapboy.

The duo is supported by a cast of 3 to 11-year-old 'green thumbs', most of who were selected from video auditions. From growing and eating veggies in a community garden to making mud pies at a child care centre, the production is a spin off from dirtgirlworld and will go to air on ABC4 Kids later in the year.


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