More than 3,000 students in 25 schools across seven states will soon be donning their gardening gloves and getting stuck into creating their dream gardens thanks to the Yates Junior Landcare Grants for Gardens Program.
Schools can build their dream garden or outdoor classroom with the help of the Yates Junior Landcare Grants for Gardens program
Two hundred schools in Victoria will benefit from funding under the Powerful Youth Projects funded by Momentum Energy through its partnership with Junior Landcare.
The Powerful Youth Projects, funded by Momentum Energy through its partnership with Junior Landcare offers 200 grants of $1000 for projects that involve young people actively caring for and learning about their natural environment.
Kalaya Children’s Centre have utilised the Yates Creative Gardening Grant to create two raised bush tucker garden beds for the preschool children to learn about the origins of their food. Horticultural experts from Taoundi College supported the project by providing advice so the children were able to gain appropriate understanding of how plants were used traditionally by Kaurna people.