About our Organisation.
What do we do
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Native & Edible Landscapes
Our social enterprise designs and builds veggie gardens and native landscapes, for schools, community gardens, kinders and residential homes.
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Environmental Projects
We facilitate environment initiatives in local neighbourhoods, with a particular focus in Aintree Reserve and Deanside/Western Wetlands. We work with community and Schools to revegetate native grasslands
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Community Garden
We coordinate the Aintree Community Garden, a hub of environmental, food growing and sustainability education. We host community workshops, school programs, and more.
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Coffee Cart
Book our environmentally friendly coffee cart for your next event. Serving Fairtrade, ethical and environmentally friendly coffee in sustainable packaging.
Who is We Love Aintree &
Eat Grow Garden
We Love Aintree Ltd, was founded as a not-for-profit public company in 2019, by Jono Ingram. Starting in a community garden, sustainability, caring for the environment and community has always been central to what we’ve been about.
Post COVID, in 2022, we refined our mission to better reflect our roots and our desire to see local people empowered to love where they live, caring for people and places right across Melbourne’s west. We operate two social enterprises which help us carry out our vision — Eat Grow Garden, and We Love Aintree. Eat Grow Garden’s focus is on edible & native landscaping, while We Love Aintree’s focus is education & environmental action.
Our Founding Director
Jono Ingram is the Founding Director We Love Aintree and Eat Grow Garden. Jono is a passionate veggie gardener and has over 15 years in the community not-for-profit sector working with community gardens, community consultation and activation, community engagement with Churches, and as a Wellbeing & Kitchen Garden teacher in primary schools. When he's not in the garden, Jono might be running hills in Lerderderg training for an ultra trail marathon, surfing on the Bellarine Peninsula, or sitting around a fire pit with family and friends enjoying a nice home brewed beer.