About our Organisation.
What do we do
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Grow Food: Melton
We love community food growing initiatives which help people grow food more sustainably at home and in public places. We coordinate and manage the Aintree & Kurunjang Community Gardens, and are building the Melton Community Garden Network. We’re developing a hub of environmentally sustainable food growing in Melbourne’s west.
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Grow Wild: Melton
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, and promote habitat gardens in homes and schools.
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Native & Edible Landscapes
As part of both Grow Food & Grow Wild, we design and build veggie gardens and native landscapes. We will build some landscapes in residential homes, however we have a focus on building larger community projects which promote food growing or create habitat in the suburbs.
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.
After COVID, in 2022, our Board of Directors decided to restructure in order to better reflect our roots and commitment to environmental education. As part of this restructure, our members voted to become a charity and in 2026, we obtained charitable status with the ACNC as an Environment Charity.
Our key programs - Grow Food & Grow Wild - reflect the our core environmental commitments to help communities grow more food sustainably, and to conserve and restore native ecosystems.
In 2026, We Love Aintree Ltd. consolidated this work, moving all our programs under our existing trading name Eat Grow Garden. This has allowed us to move some of our Grow Food & Grow Wild programs outside of the community of Aintree where we were first established.
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.