Grow food, reduce waste and build stronger, healthier and more resilient communities with Grow It Local.
Proven Outcomes for
Communities & Government
Six proven outcomes for communities:
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Food waste diversion
2
Food waste avoidance
3
Community health and wellbeing
4
Community connectivity
5
Increased biodiversity
6
Food security
So What’s It All About…
The Problems We Solve
Governments are facing growing pressure to deliver food waste reduction, climate action, community health and wellbeing and food security with limited resources.
Grow It Local helps local governments connect, educate, and inspire residents to grow food at home, school, or in community gardens. It’s a council enabled and community powered program presently adopted by 25 plus local governments nationally.
Circular Economy In Action
Food Waste Hierarchy
Achieving Strategic Outcomes For Government
Grow It Local has been designed to support local waste, environment, sustainability, community and health & wellbeing strategies of local government. The program delivers localised data and impact reporting to quantify and qualify the measurable impacts it is helping to achieve in partner LGAs.
Supports waste & circular strategies by delivering on waste avoidance, food waste reduction outcomes and measuring circular behaviours
Supports FOGO by closing the loop on food waste
Boosts local food growing and composting
Increases community health and wellbeing
Turnkey solution that is locally relevant but with national scale
Measurable outcomes with real-time data and annual reporting
A program that has been adopted by local governments across waste, environment, sustainability, community, climate, parks, libraries and communications departments
Waverley Council – branding their fleet with Grow It Local
The City of Mandurah invited their local growers to a special event, The Grow It Local Long Table Dinner
Program Activities
Monthly Live Workshops
Knowledge and skill sharing sessions featuring Australia’s best growers. 40+ workshops also available on-demand
Seed Service
Seasonal selections of education-enabled heirloom seeds delivered direct to your community in spring & autumn
Ask An Expert Service
Get help from our in-house experts to overcome any problems in your patch
Grow It Local Awards
A celebration of creativity and community in homegrown culture judged by Costa & friends
Member Meet-ups
Ask questions, share stories and connect via monthly member meet-ups hosted by Paul West
How To Grow Videos
Access a growing catalogue of educational content featuring Costa, Paul West, Connie Cao, Mel Logozzo and more
Data and Reporting
Food Waste Avoidance
& Reduction Metrics
Included here are a few examples of data points provided to local government partners:
Community Health
& Wellbeing Metrics
Included here are a few examples of some of the data points provided to local government partners:
Research, Impact Reports & Business Cases.
(Downloadable)
*Government partner referees are available upon request*
Our Mission
Grow It Local is a mission to help more Australians grow, share and eat locally grown food.
