Grow the Future

Grow the Future 🍃Working with young people to grow food and regenerate the land🥕

🥕🫛Support local’ is an easy hashtag to through out there at when putting together a SM aimed at showing your best self.🫛...
10/08/2026

🥕🫛Support local’ is an easy hashtag to through out there at when putting together a SM aimed at showing your best self.🫛🥕

But local food systems, local economies, and local communities only thrive when we show a genuine commitment to supporting the producers and suppliers in our local community.

Truly supporting local, is a week in, week out commitment, that often requires patience, flexibility and innovation.🌱🍃🥦

We’re super grateful to work in a community with a whole bunch of people, and businesses who are fully committed to supporting local.

🍽️The Red Cafe not only use our produce in their kitchen, but have been hosting us for a fortnightly ‘pop-up’ plant sale over the last few months while we’ve been stuck without a Nursery site.🌱

🥕Candelo Wholefoods, and Candelo General Store are two of our Day 1s who have been putting g our veg up on their shelf for almost three years now.

🪴Stanford’s Kalaru, Cobargo Coop and Bridge-house Nursery have been stocking our local seedlings.

🫜Bega Valley Organics add our veggies to their boxes that get delivered all around the valley, Saphire Fruit and Veg in Pambula and Saphire Farmers Markets stock our produce, and Evolve Cafe and Mimosa Wines use our veg in their kitchens.

🍄‍🟫And of course …. Our loyal Tuesdays afternoon farm gate customers, and our harvest members epitomise what it is to support local.

We love working in this community, and we love working with so many amazing community partners to make the Bega Valley a thriving place.🐝

☕️It was great to host our annual Youth Service Provider Morning Tea on Wednesday!☕️Held in partnership with the Local J...
06/08/2026

☕️It was great to host our annual Youth Service Provider Morning Tea on Wednesday!☕️

Held in partnership with the Local Jobs Program, the morning bout together a huge range of people working with Young People in the Bega Valley, to connect over ways that we can collaborate together to create opportunities for young people to grow.

🍃There on the morning we’re workers from:

Headspace Bega
Campbell Page
APM Employment Services
Bega Valley Shire Council
Eden Community Access Centre
Embarc Inclusive Employment
Sureways Employment and Training
At Work Australia
South East Woman’s and Children’s Services
Saphire Neighbourhood Services
University of Wollongong
Bega Chamber of Commerce
Eden Game Development Centre
NSW Department of Education

As well as having space and time to form allot of great connections, and plant a few seeds of ideas for future collaborations, it was great the Finn and Emily, two of our crew, got a chance to run a farm tour, giving attendees a bit of an insight into the day to day here at Grow the Future.🫛🌱💦🌻

We want to say a huge thank you to all those who attended the morning tea, and especially to Michelle from Local Jobs to collaborating to put the event of for the third year on the bounce!

It’s so awesome to be working within a community of people, and organisations who are all working hard to help to support a positive future for young people in the Bega Valley🌱

05/08/2026

💦The rain didn’t last long unfortunately😢

🌱Propogating plants is the first unit we sync our teeth into in the Grow the Future Training Certificate, as it’s a great way for crew to get their head around some of the fundamentals before we expand into other areas.

🍃🌲🫛We’re super lucky to be able to work with a bunch of amazing guest teachers and site visit facilitators who worked with us unpacked some of the ins and outs of growing new plants. This includes:

Bega Valley Seed Savers
Provincial Plants and Landscapes
South Coast Flora

Are you or do you know a young person who might became to learn more about this?❓

We’re currently taking enrolments for our spring program that starts in September, and we’d love to have you on board!

🔗Follow the link in comments, or flick us a DM!

🌱🐝We’ve had a fun start to term 3 of our ‘Hand-On Monday’ program.🐝🌱With a few new crew joining the team, we’ve been get...
04/08/2026

🌱🐝We’ve had a fun start to term 3 of our ‘Hand-On Monday’ program.🐝🌱

With a few new crew joining the team, we’ve been getting the farm ready for a busy spring ahead!

Over the last few weeks, we’ve got involved in:
🔧building steel framed nursery shelving
🫛Preparing garden beds for spring
🪴Potting on tomatoes
🧤Brushcutter and mower inductions
🎨Painting site signs
🌱Planting the first spring plants

As always, we’ve been putting together some amazing lunches, including burgers and satay chicken.

Yesterday we did our monthly walk down to the Bega River, get stuck into some bush regeneration alongside the Bega River Wetlands Landcare group.

Spring is getting closer and closer, and we can’t wait!!!

💕Some of the feedback we get from some of our students!🍃ENROLMENTS NOW OPEN for the Spring Grow the Future Training Cert...
03/08/2026

💕Some of the feedback we get from some of our students!

🍃ENROLMENTS NOW OPEN for the Spring Grow the Future Training Certificate.🍃

🌱🥕Skill up around caring for plants, ecosystems, veggie growing, workplace skills and much more.🔧🐝

Run in partnership with , and fully funded by NSW Government for eligible participants.

For 15- 24 year olds who like to learn through doing! Delivered in our ‘living classroom’ in a way that is accessible, inclusive, supportive and inspiring!🌳

🔗Link in comments to find out more, and express your interest, and DM us if you’d like to find out more!

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02/08/2026

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🌳🍂If you like to learn in a hands-on, outdoor, project based setting, then the Grow the Future Training Certificate is f...
01/08/2026

🌳🍂If you like to learn in a hands-on, outdoor, project based setting, then the Grow the Future Training Certificate is for you.

Come get a genuine, with Units in:

🌱 Plant Identification
🌻Propagating plants
🪱Erosion and sediment control
🔧Work, Health and Safety
🌿Caring for natural ecosystems
🥕Growing vegetables and herbs
🌲Treating Weeds
🌏 Planting Practices

We’re kicking off the autumn program in September, and there are fully funded spots for 15-24 year olds who aren’t engaged in school, but are keen to learn in a hands on way.

🐝DM us if you’d like to find out more, or visit link in comments

☕️🫖An open invite to anyone who is working with young people in the Bega Valley to join us for our Annual Youth Service ...
31/07/2026

☕️🫖An open invite to anyone who is working with young people in the Bega Valley to join us for our Annual Youth Service Provider Morning Tea, held in partnership with Local Jobs - Illawarra South Coast🔆

🌱As we move out of winter and into spring, we’d like to invite you to join us at the farm for our annual youth focused service provider morning tea. This will be a chance to connect, share ideas, and explore ways we can work together to support and engage young people in our community.

We’re excited to share some program updates from out end, and have some conversations about opportunities available for young people through Grow the Future.

🕕Wednesday, August 5�10:30 AM – 12:00 PM�📍Grow the Future – 20 Auckland Street, Bega

Feel free to reach out if you’d like more information about the session—or just want to have a chat!

We look forward to seeing you there.🫖☕️🔆

🌳🍂If you like to learn in a hands-on, outdoor, project based setting, then the Grow the Future Training Certificate is f...
29/07/2026

🌳🍂If you like to learn in a hands-on, outdoor, project based setting, then the Grow the Future Training Certificate is for you.

Come get a genuine, with Units in:

🌱 Plant Identification
🌻Propagating plants
🪱Erosion and sediment control
🔧Work, Health and Safety
🌿Caring for natural ecosystems
🥕Growing vegetables and herbs
🌲Treating Weeds
🌏 Planting Practices

We’re kicking off the autumn program in September, and there are fully funded spots for 15-24 year olds who aren’t engaged in school, but are keen to learn in a hands on way.

🐝DM us if you’d like to find out more, or visit link in comments!

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28/07/2026

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