Generous Grants for Little Green Thumbs
Schools can build their dream garden or outdoor classroom with the help of the Yates Junior Landcare Grants for Gardens program
Victorian schools invited to share in $200,000 of funding
Two hundred schools in Victoria will benefit from funding under the Powerful Youth Projects funded by Momentum Energy through its partnership with Junior Landcare.
Community News
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.
Bush tucker at Kalaya
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.
Native Nursery and Teaching Garden
Miami State High School has utilised the Yates Creative Gardening Grant to begin a school-based community project with wide-reaching environmental impacts. The school community feels strongly about protecting the dunes that are located 200m from the school. As such, the school worked with the wider community through the Gold Coast Beachcare to propagate and plant native plants on the dunes. The project created both a teaching garden for use in the study of dunes and helped to revegetate the local North Burleigh/South Nobbys foreshore.