Community · Environment · Education

Tracking what matters.

The Corner Garden exists to create value beyond its own bottom line. This page tracks how we’re doing that through seedlings, in schools, in gardens and in hours given to people who need them. Updated as we grow.

Impact at a glance

Our impact across the community.

1,095
Seedlings sold to date across pollinator packs and seedling sales.
418
Seedlings donated and committed to partner school gardens.
$5,850
Labour invested in supporting partner schools’ growing and learning.
35
Discounted Fine Gardening hours delivered to seniors and people with disability.
Environmental

Pollinator friendly seedlings into Melbourne gardens.

Every seedling sold through The Corner Garden’s monthly pollinator packs or seedling sales is a pollinator-friendly species. We select cultivars that pollinators can easily access and have not had their pollen bred out. The profit from every Pollinator Pack funds our Growing Gardeners school program.

Seedlings by type: to date

Native flowers and ground cover 26%
Non-native flowers 74%

What makes a seedling pollinator friendly?

We select cultivars that are known to attract pollinators, and that have accessible pollen and nectar. Our seedling list is curated from personal growing experience, attracting native pollinators to The Corner Garden.

Where they’ve gone

  • Private gardens in Melbourne’s inner West and NorthVia monthly Pollinator Packs and seasonal seedling sales
  • Footscray West Primary SchoolGrowing Gardeners program · 72-cell tray of natives
  • Footscray City Primary SchoolGrowing Gardeners program · 72-cell tray of seedlings
  • Gowrie @ The Harbour Childcare CentreThree- and four-year-old kindergarten gardening
  • Brunswick East Primary SchoolGrowing Gardeners program · 72-cell tray of seedlings

Pollinator Packs on sale monthly

Profits fund the Growing Gardeners school program.

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Education

Growing the next generation of gardeners.

Every sold-out Pollinator Pack funds free seedlings and growing guidance for local schools and early childhood centres through our Growing Gardeners program. Four schools are partnered so far, each growing, learning and harvesting alongside us.

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Progress to date
4
Primary schools and early learning centres currently partnered in the Growing Gardeners program
422
Seedlings sold in 2026 that directly support individual school participation in the program.
$5,850
Labour invested in supporting partner schools’ growing and learning.
418
Seedlings donated and committed to partner school gardens.
Our partner schools
Four schools growing with us this year.
Active partner
Footscray West Primary
February 2026 cycle · 94 seedlings sold
View their page → Active partner
Footscray City Primary
March 2026 cycle · 115 seedlings sold
View their page → Active partner
Brunswick East Primary School
May 2026 cycle · 106 seedlings sold
View their page → Active partner
Gowrie @ The Harbour
June 2026 cycle · 107 seedlings sold
View their page →
Social inclusion

Opening the garden to our whole community.

Beyond seedlings and schools, we make space in the garden for people who benefit from it most, and provide affordable, high quality fine gardening for seniors and people with disability.

35.5
Discounted Fine Gardening hours delivered to seniors and people with disability.
7
Neurodivergent children welcomed into the garden.
25.5
Hours the garden has opened up for neurodivergent kids to cultiavte their love of gardening and create a safe space to regulate and play.

Every seedling sold grows the next generation of gardeners.

Seedlings, growing guides and hours on the ground, all funded by pollinator pack sales.

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