Ready Fund Grow

16/09/2025

🌱✨ The Little Unicorn Honeysuckle is Growing a Greener Future! ✨🌱

At The Little Unicorn Honeysuckle, we believe children deserve more than just a playground — they deserve a space to connect with nature, discover how things grow, and take pride in what they create. 🌿💚

This Monday, we’re launching our Ready Fund Grow campaign to raise $800 for two WaterUps Oasis 1240 Wicking Beds. These amazing self-watering garden beds are perfect for little hands and busy educators, helping us grow a thriving veggie garden right here at the centre. 🥕🍅🌻

👉 Stay tuned for the launch link on Monday — let’s grow this dream together! 🌱

Help us create thriving, sustainable gardens right here at The Little Unicorn Honeysuckle!

28/08/2025

We are delighted that Our Lady of the Rosary Waitara has started their campaign for their Sustainable Garden Expansion with Ready Fund Grow and WaterUps.

This weekend the campaign will be launched at their school event.

We wish them all the very best of luck.

If you are not attending on Saturday you can support their campaign by purchasing a WaterUps self watering planter on their campaign page. If you do so 25% of the price of the planter will go towards their campaign target.

Help OLOR Waitara P&F expand our garden with a WaterUps Oasis 1680 Wicking Bed!

24/08/2025

Today our Partner Spotlight is on:

WaterUps

💧 Saving Water While Growing Gardens – Meet WaterUps! 💧

We are proud to partner with WaterUps, an Australian company who make self-watering planters and garden beds locally.

Why we love them:

🌿 They are perfect for creating schools & community gardens
💧 Their products save water with smart wicking technology
📚 They provide a great teaching tool about water conservation & sustainable growing
🌱 Their low maintenance planters and garden beds give higher success rates for plants.
$ They give 25% of the purchase price of their products sold on your Ready fund Grow campaign to your project!

And their products are made in Australia!

When you start a garden project with Ready Fund Grow, you can access WaterUps solutions that make gardening easier, more sustainable, and educational for kids.

Email us here to find out more: info@readyfundgrow.com.au

Check them out here: www.waterups.com.au

18/08/2025

🌱 Let’s Grow Together – Start Your Garden Project Today! 🌱

Do you have a vision for a school veggie patch, native garden, or sensory space?

With Ready Fund Grow, you can:

💰 Raise the funds you need through crowdfunding
💡 Get expert tips & resources to plan your garden
🤝 Partner with sustainability experts like WaterUps
🌏 Inspire children to care for the planet

Send us a message at info@readyfundgrow.com.au to find out how to get started.

Let’s bring garden dreams to life! 🌻

14/08/2025

Benefits of School & Community Gardens Australia

🌿 Why Gardens Matter for Kids and Communities

School and community gardens are more than just green spaces - we know that they help:

💚 Improve mental health and wellbeing

🍅 Teach kids about fresh food and healthy eating

🌏 Build awareness of sustainability and scarce resources

👩‍🌾 Encourage teamwork, patience and problem solving

💧 Show the value of water and conservation

With Ready Fund Grow, you can fund your garden project through crowdfunding AND tap into our resources to help build your campaign.

What’s one thing you’d love children to learn from gardening and you think communities value?

Please share below!

10/08/2025

🥬 School Gardens Grow Lettuce – Fast! 🪴

Looking for a quick win in your school, community or retirement village garden?

Lettuce grows in just 3–4 weeks, making it a perfect pick for kids (and adults!) to see results fast. 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

🌿 It grows happily in pots or garden beds, and with the “cut and come again” method, you can keep harvesting fresh leaves while the plant keeps growing. Great for lunchbox snacks, cooking classes, or sharing with the school community.

💡 Top tip for schools: Keep it well-watered and provide a little shade in hot weather – perfect for the Aussie climate!

(Or you are worried about watering over the weekends or holidays you may choose a little help from WaterUps self watering planters!).

Growing lettuce is a fun, hands-on way to explore science, sustainability, and healthy eating – all from a pot of soil. 🌱✨

📸 Got a thriving garden?
Share your photos or garden stories below – we love seeing what you're growing!

07/08/2025

We are delighted to find out this morning that we have been awarded a top fan badge by Community Gardens Australia as one of their most engaged supporters!

If anyone is looking to raise funds for their community garden project we would be delighted to help you create your Ready Fund Grow crowdfunding campaign page.

You can reach out to us at info@readyfundgrow.com.au to find out how to get started.

Become a member and support CGA.

Your generous support will help us continue to expand our work, develop a more engaged and connected community gardens network and further develop the resources that you need. 🌱

https://communitygarden.org.au/join-us/

07/08/2025

Thank you to WaterUps for sharing.

We are delighted to be helping schools provide gardening experiences for their pupils.

If you are a teacher and would like to learn more, we have an online Discovery Session for 30 minutes on Zoom on 19th August at 3.30pm AEST.

E mail us at info@readyfundgrow.com.au if you would like to join.

Help OLOR Waitara P&F expand our garden with a WaterUps Oasis 1680 Wicking Bed!

05/08/2025

🌱 Teachers – Want to Create a Sustainable Garden at Your School? 🌱

We’re hosting a free Discovery Session on Zoom to show how Ready Fund Grow can help your school or early learning centre bring a garden project to life!

Whether you’re dreaming of a kitchen garden, a native plant area, or a green space for outdoor learning, we can help you:

🌿 Access crowdfunding support

💧 Use innovative self-watering planters from our partner WaterUpsWaterUps
🌏 Teach children about sustainability, water conservation, and growing food
💚 Improve health, wellbeing, and hands-on learning experiences

📅 Date: 19 August 2025
⏰ Time: 3.30pm AEST
📍 Where: Zoom (link sent after you register)
➡ To Register e mail us: info@readyfundgrow.com.au

Let’s work together to create thriving gardens that inspire the next generation! 🌻

04/08/2025

🌱 Welcome to Ready Fund Grow! 🌱We’re so glad you’re here!

🌿 🌱 Introducing Ready Fund Grow – Helping Schools and Communities Grow a Greener Future 🌱

We’re excited to share the launch of Ready Fund Grow, Australia’s dedicated crowdfunding platform designed to help schools, early learning centres, and community groups create thriving gardens and green spaces.

Formerly known as ReadyFundGo, which supported a wide range of businesses, we’ve rebranded to focus on a mission close to our hearts: bringing people closer to nature and teaching children about growing food, sustainability, and healthy living.

Gardens are more than just places to grow fruit and vegetables – they’re classrooms for hands-on learning, tools for improving physical and mental wellbeing, and spaces where communities can come together. By starting small with kitchen gardens and sustainable planting projects, children learn lifelong lessons about food, health, and caring for our planet.

As part of this journey, we’re proud to partner with WaterUps, an Australian innovator in self-watering planters and garden beds. These systems make gardening more accessible, save water, and provide a powerful way to teach children about managing precious resources.

Whether you’re a teacher, parent association, or community garden leader, Ready Fund Grow can help you bring your project to life. By connecting your school or community initiative with supporters, our platform makes it easy to fund and create green spaces that nurture both people and the planet.

🌿 If you’d like to learn more about how we can help you create a sustainable garden, we’d love to hear from you. Together, let’s grow healthier futures for our children and communities.

If you want to hear more e mail us at info@readyfundgrow.com.au to get started.
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WaterUps Wicking Community WaterUps

01/08/2025

Has your school thought about creating a kitchen garden?

Why School Gardens Matter More Than Ever

School gardens are powerful tools for learning, wellbeing, and environmental stewardship.

They help students:

🌱 Connect learning to life: Gardening brings science, maths, literacy, and sustainability lessons alive in a hands-on environment.

🌱 Develop essential life skills: Responsibility, patience, teamwork, problem-solving—all grow alongside the plants.

🌱 Boost mental health: Research shows time in nature reduces stress and improves wellbeing. Gardens create a calm, restorative space on campus.

🌱 Foster environmental awareness: Students see sustainability in action, learning how water, food, and ecosystems connect.

But turning a vision into reality takes more than passion—it takes funding. And for many schools, finding funds for infrastructure like garden beds, soil, and tools can feel like an impossible hurdle.

https://readyfundgrow.com.au/cultivating-minds-and-funds-how-school-gardens-grow-learning-community-and-sustainability/