Our Kleenheat Community Grants program is designed to help local go-getters continue to make a positive difference in their communities.
The FOGO (food organics and gardening organics) program is not available in Albany so Mount Lockyer Primary School is bringing lessons in food waste and sustainability back to the classroom with their ‘Green Team’, with the help of a Kleenheat Community Grant.
Mount Lockyer Primary School has been incorporating lessons on food waste, gardening, and sustainability since 2015 in order to educate kids from a young age. The program is called Wastewise.
Wastewise focuses on the pro’s of being sustainable and con’s of food wastage and environmental hazards. This includes what can be composted, so that it doesn’t end up in landfill, as well as how composting helps their school gardens grow to produce healthy, edible produce fit for school canteens and fundraiser events.
All classrooms are involved in the school’s Wastewise program. Classrooms have their own garden plot where they attend a weekly gardening session and learn about composting, worm farming, and the importance of eating healthy homegrown food.
Throughout the year in-season vegetables, fruits and herbs are grown and then supplied to the school canteen, included in ‘Crunch and Sip’ tastings or sold to the school community via their pop-up fresh veggie stall on assembly days.
Any proceeds are then reinvested into the gardens to purchase more seed, soil, and other equipment.
Learn more at www.kleenheat.com.au/grants.