St Lawrence's Central School
St Lawrence’s Central School, located near Coonabarabran in rural New South Wales, applied for a Coles Junior Landcare School Garden Grant in 2009 to help fund a native garden. They used their funding to purchase garden beds and sleepers. The establishment ...

St Michael’s Primary School
St Michael’s Primary School in Tallangatta, near Albury in rural NSW, applied for a Coles Junior Landcare School Garden Grant in 2009 to help fund a school vegetable garden. They used their funding to purchase a shade house, worm farm, ...

Gumnut Children’s Centre
Gumnut Children’s Centre in Milton on the NSW South Coast applied for a Coles Junior Landcare School Garden Grant in 2009 to create a windbreak of native trees and garden beds. They used their funding to purchase raised garden beds, ...

Avoca Public School
We turned an area of our school yard into a vegetable and herb garden to supply our school canteen and students. Our children have developed a great interest in growing things – and eating them! We held 3 working bees and ...

Pennant Hills Public School
As 2010 is the Year of Learning for Sustainability it seemed an ideal time to focus on re-establishing our unused propagation shed and creating an outdoor learning area for the teachers and students at the school. So the Green Thumbs ...

The Scots School Lithgow
The Scots School Lithgow have built a successful vegetable garden with complementary worm farm, tumble composter (pictured below) and 700L steam lined water tank. The schools parents and community citizens have also been very active in helping to install and ...

Indigenous Garden
‘It takes a village to raise a garden’ Through this grant, students at Northside Montessori School have transformed a weedy disused area of land into an interactive and productive Indigenous Garden. They have really taken ownership of this project with enthusiasm. ...

Waste reduction – a change of habit
The “Waste reduction – a change of habit” Westpac Junior Landcare student leadership project aimed to minimise waste entering landfill by improving recycling methods and habits, composting food scraps, and growing organic vegetables in the school garden at St Laurence’s ...