About us

WHO WE ARE

Grow It Local is a community of backyard, balcony, community and window-sill farmers from all over Australia

Our mission

Grow It Local is on a plant-powered mission to make life happier, healthier and more delicious. We make growing food simple, social and fun.

Our purpose

We want  more Australians growing, sharing and eating locally-grown foods.:

We help by:

  • Making organic food growing knowledge more accessible.
  • Increasing the production and consumption of healthy, fresh, seasonal produce
  • Increasing food appreciation and increasing food waste avoidance
  • Providing a connection to nature.
  • Inspiring positive health and wellbeing. 
  • Helping build stronger and more resilient communities.
  • Increasing composting and reducing organic food waste to landfill.
  • Doing something delicious and having a little fun!

Join our growing community!

Skill up
Take a dive into our collection of “How To” articles to help expand your mind and food growing know how.

Join a workshop 
Each month, we offer exclusive, digital ‘learn to grow’ workshops — connecting you with leading Australian growers. 

Join our next Grow Along Journey
Participate in seasonal  ‘grow alongs’ and get a selection of heirloom seeds delivered direct to your door. We also provide an educational content journey to help support you and skill you up to get you growing delicious food at home

Ask for help!
Got a gardening question? Ask one of our in-house gurus for support.

What do we do?

We partner with  local and state governments around the country to bring monthly workshops, seeds and a heap of gardening knowledge to the people.

We bring together a community of tens of thousands of passionate, home growing people , just like you, all over the country, who are making the world a better place, starting in their own patch.

We run Australia’s most colourful and inclusive gardening awards, The Grow it Local Awards

We collate Australia’s biggest year on year data set, quantifying the positive impacts of growing food at home, The Grow it Local Awards

And we’re just getting started!

So come and join our plant-powered revolution!

Can you dig it?!

Work for council and want to partner with us?

Interested in educating and supporting more communities across your LGA or region to grow and eat healthy, fresh, seasonal produce? Or just to get local data, insights and impacts relating to the state of local food production locally? 

Get in touch to schedule a briefing and learn more about how Grow It Local is being delivered in partnership with 33 government organisations over 38,000 members across Australia