School garden grants
There are a number of grants available to schools for gardening projects.
The Moreton Bay Regional Community Gardens Network provides a list here
Planning school gardens
In terms of planning for Gardens I am aware of one group that has visited schools in our Region:
Growing Communities http://www.growingcommunities.org.au/
Native plants and biodiversity in schools
For planning to support Biodiversity in the school with native plantings please consider our Education for Sustainability program:
In-class Presentations Investigations and Actions in schools and nearby parks habitat areas and waterways
Protecting Our Place; Our Biodiversity (in-class presentation)
Your local area is part of our Bioregion; a unique combination of flora fauna landforms and water movement. Students will participate in an interactive story identifying actions that protect and rebuild our important local ecosystems.
Investigating Biodiversity; and/or Developing an Action Plan for the Biodiversity (action-support facilitation)
Experienced environmental educators will assist classes to monitor and evaluate local habitats biodiversity and waterways and engage in the process of building an Action Plan for the Bioregion.
Booking details can be found the following link: In-class Education for Sustainability
Students can also learn plant propagation techniques in some of our learning modules at Kumbartcho and CREEC Environment centres
* Education for Sustainability – Teachers Guide
* Environmental education centres
Plant Lists A lists of native plants associated with your local area based on Regional Ecosystem mapping is also available on request.