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People

The work outlasts the visit.

Training, mentoring and support for the educators, health professionals, carers, volunteers and community organisations who keep a garden going between visits. A place only stays alive if the people around it feel confident in it.

Who we work with

The people who stay.

Educators & school staff

Teachers, SLSOs and Support Unit staff, building confidence to run garden and farm sessions as part of ordinary school weeks.

Health professionals & carers

Occupational therapists, allied health and care staff bringing garden-based work into a clinical or residential setting.

Volunteers & community groups

The people who show up on a Saturday: induction, safe tool use, seasonal rhythm and how to keep a shared bed productive.

Organisations

Support for community organisations designing and standing up their own nature-based programs.

What it looks like

Alongside you, not in a workshop room.

Almost all of it happens outside, in your own garden or farm, during real sessions with real students or clients.

  • Mentoring on the tools, in your own garden or farm

  • Staff capacity-building days alongside program delivery

  • Program design and planning support

  • Volunteer induction and safe tool use

  • Ongoing check-ins through a season

Students and staff planting side by side in a raised bed
Freshly composted market garden rows, every bed labelled and planted
Beds composted and labelled, ready for the next planting, laid out so the staff can keep it running week to week.

Seb is highly knowledgeable and brings a calm, professional presence that students respect and respond to. Students developed confidence, responsibility and pride in their work, and staff benefited from working alongside him. It has been a genuinely valuable experience for our school.

Kiara CerrutiTeacher, Tweed River High School
Side by side

Staff, students and volunteers, on the tools.

  • Two students grinning over armfuls of just-picked chard
  • Students and staff sorting crates of lettuce, cucumbers, carrots and beets
  • A student mowing the grass path between raised beds and flowering sunflowers
  • Three young people showing off their harvest at the community garden
  • A student sitting quietly with two chickens on their lap
  • A wet-weather harvest: a loaded cart of greens wheeled up the path in a yellow raincoat
  • Two students holding a pot of seedlings they have just planted
  • A basket of potatoes with a show first-prize card
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Good to know.

Educators and school staff, health professionals and carers, volunteers and community groups, and organisations designing and standing up their own nature-based programs.

Almost all of it happens outside, in your own garden or farm, during real sessions with real students or clients.

Mentoring on the tools, staff capacity-building days alongside program delivery, program design and planning support, volunteer induction and safe tool use, and ongoing check-ins through a season.

A garden only keeps going if the people around it are confident. Training is what carries the work on between visits, and after we leave.

Want your team confident in it?

Tell us who needs to be able to run the place when we're not there, and we'll work out what support looks like.

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