Grants
VICTORIAN SCHOOLS GARDEN PROGRAM
The Victorian Schools Garden Program (VSGP) offers seed funding for new garden projects or revitalising existing gardens in schools and kindergartens across Victoria. Grants of up to $4500 are available as nursery vouchers or product packages. Categories include: edible, sensory, habitat, orchard, turf/sensory, compost/worm-farming, tools, seedling packs, steel planter kits, and more.
Timing: Grant applications have closed for this year, but are expected to reopen for 2026 in March. Find out more here.
VICTORIAN SCHOOLS GARDEN AWARDS
The VSGP offers prizes for impressive school and kindergarten gardens, ranging in value from $250 to $5000 - in the form of nursery vouchers or products.
Timing: These awards usually open term 3, this year's round closed in September.
STEPHANIE ALEXANDER AND VICHEALTH GRANTS
30 grants are on offer from Stephanie Alexander and VicHealth, recipients receive a 2 year subscription to the Kitchen Garden Program, plus a $1500 infrastructure grant to finance new kitchen garden equipment or supplies. Learn more here.
Timing: These grants open in Term 3
JUNIOR LANDCARE & BIODIVERSITY GRANTS
These school garden grants of up to $5000 are to supports biodiversity and environmental projects for youth groups, schools, Scouts, Girl Guides, and Junior Landcare groups.
Timing: These grants have closed for 2025, with the more than 100 winners already announced. The next round of Junior Landcare grants is expected to open in 2026.
About Us
Growing Healthier Futures as an Australian owned and operated social enterprise with a mission to make the plant growing process as easy, accessible and sustainable as possible for educators and small-scale home growers.
We believe learning to grow from seed is the key to inspiring a new generation of environmental superheroes, and that everyone can grow if they're set up for success.
Growing from seed is a powerful way of learning about, respecting and nurturing the environment while simultaneously boosting biodiversity, providing endless plants for little to no cost, and providing vital food and shelter for wildlife.
The Growing Healthier Futures social enterprise is founded by Christie Cooper, award winning Melbourne based broadcast news journalist, "Green Thumb Reporter" on YouTube and mother to 3 school and kindy aged kids.
This project incorporates web-based learning with real physical gardening products that are painstakingly selected to be as environmentally friendly, circular, sustainable and durable as possible, so you can buy once then grow forever.
We're upcycling commercial growing tools to make them available to everyone.
We're providing information and learning resources to make life as easy as possible for educators.
We're connecting you with excursions, incursions and grants, to turn your vision into a reality.
We're helping make sure the supplies you need to incorporate hands-on growing into your homes and classrooms can be delivered to your door, to save you time and energy.
We're working to incorporate the Circular Business Model into everything we do. Our packaging is all resealable and reusable, and biodegradable where possible.
Our materials are carefully selected to be reused and recycled where possible, and recyclable where not.
We source Australian-made wherever we can.
The planet doesn't need healthy humans to survive but humans do need a healthy planet to survive. Every second of every day we are relying on healthy air, healthy soil, healthy water and a healthy climate.
Grow with us.
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