Securing the future of Bob Hawke’s Landcare legacy
Celebrating Landcare Week, Bob Hawke’s granddaughter and Landcare 30 Years ambassador Sophie Taylor-Price announced the Landcare Youth Summit in Wentworth NSW.
Woolworths
The Woolworths Junior Landcare Grants program launched in 2018 and has already engaged more than 400,000 students and supported over 4,900 primary schools and early learning centres to help get children hands-on with caring for the natural environment. Woolworths also supports the Junior Landcare Learning Centre to help educators across the country run Junior Landcare projects that link with curriculum and framework outcomes.
Hundreds of Woolworths Junior Landcare Grants on offer
In March 2019, we announced that 538 primary schools and early learning centres throughout Australia had received our first ever Woolworths Junior Landcare Grants.
Love Letters to the Land
Get water wise with aquaponics sensory garden
During summer, temperatures of 35-40 degree are not uncommon in Lorn, NSW. The extreme summer temperatures would affect the plants in the school garden, causing them to dehydrate and die, especially on weekends or during school holidays when regular watering was unavailable.
Not content with seeing their beautiful garden being destroyed, the school set about solving their watering issues by creating an aquaponics sensory garden, using a Junior Landcare grant from the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC).