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Our mission: To work with urban children, youth and their families to learn about, grow and prepare fresh foods, cultivated in an environmentally sustainable manner in hands-on programs.
Green Thumbs Growing Kids offers food growing and environmental education programs in 3 inner-city schools and 2 park sites. Our programs take place in the east downtown Toronto neighbourhoods of St. James Town, Cabbagetown, and Regent Park. We now reach around 3000 children from these neighbourhoods each year. Our school food garden projects are about kids and their grownups, plants and their people.
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Make a DONATION to support school food gardening.
MEDIA: For more information or interview requests please contact us.
What's New!
Green Thumbs at the CISB 2010 Symposium on Sustainable Horticulture
Sunday will be at the Canadian Institute for Sustainable Biodiversity 2010 Symposium tomorrow from 5:00pm to 6:30pm doing a poster presentation on the relevance of school food gardens to sustainable biodiversity in Burlington at the Royal Botanical Gardens.
For more information go to the event site for more details.
Green Thumbs at Seedy Saturday...on a Sunday - This February 21st!
Green Thumbs Growing Kids will have a table at Seedy Saturday... on a Sunday, Toronto's best Eco Fair, at the Green Barns from 12:30pm to 6:00pm on February 21st. They'll be heirloom seed vendors, a seed exchange area, garden workshops, children's activities and food at this fun event. Come by and say hi!
For more information please go to the Toronto Community Garden Network website here.
Winter workshops & projects
Although it's cold and there's frost outside, Green Thumbs Growing Kids is busy with winter workshops! We are continuing with Stone Soup and seed saving classroom workshops, experimenting with season extension techniques outdoors, organizing cooking sessions and growing under lights with middle school students, planning for upcoming projects and educational workshops in the new year and many other exciting endeavours! We also recently ran a seed saving workshop with St. James Town youth in collaboration with U4Change and organized a well attended teacher workshop in collaboration with the Garden and Food Curriculum Working Group.
Content last modified on February 17, 2010, at 04:27 PM EST