Gilroy Community Sustainable Gardening Project – QLD

Gilroy Santa Maria College’s Ranger Program began in 2013 as a way to replant and re-establish trees that were destroyed on the grounds of the school during Tropical Cyclone Yasi in 2011. Since then the program has expanded to a range of other activities that aim to reclaim previously unusable areas of the school – with the establishment of vegetable gardens, composting areas, a greenhouse nursery, a fruit orchard and an outdoor entertainment area that incorporates key aspects of our district’s Indigenous heritage. Through ongoing engagement in these projects, students have gained a valuable insight into how they can play their role in managing and sustaining the natural resources of the school, as well as those of their own farming and home environments.