Upcycled Garden Supplies
Free for schools and kindergartens
We’re seeking expressions of interest to help shape a new initiative designed to make gardening and environmental outdoor learning spaces easier and more affordable for schools, kindergartens and early learning centres, enabling educators to "swap" unused supplies for things they actually need, for free.
The Garden Supplies Upcycling system will collect unused tools and supplies from participating centres and offer credits for school communities to use in return. These credits can then be used to access whatever items are needed that have been donated by other schools and organisations.
Examples include compost bins, worm farms, garden beds, pots, shovels, gloves, labels, seed raising trays, plant supports and trellises, greenhouses and more.
We hope to pilot the program in the Boroondara area, with potential to expand in time.
Register your interest and tell us about your centre.
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.
Follow us on instagram www.instagram.com/growinghealthierfutures/
Experience the joy of growing through Christie Cooper's YouTube videos at www.youtube.com/@ChristieCooper