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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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August 17 EVENT:Tomorrow GTGK is showcasing a successful youth green jobs program and local food access for the community. Join community members, MPP Glen Murray and supporters of Green Thumbs Growing Kids, such as the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Live Green Toronto and others, to celebrate the accomplishments of youth in greening their community and producing local food in St. James Town. READ about it here.
Make a DONATION to support school food gardening.
VOLUNTEERING: If you would like to volunteer with Green Thumbs Growing Kids please contact us at volunteers@kidsgrowing.ca for more information
MEDIA: For more information or interview requests please contact us.
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Spring workshops & projects
June 8 2010
Ahhh! May was quite busy with both greenhouse and outdoor garden programs happening at the same time. Thankfully we had two OISE interns, Mehrdad and Lyndsay, and a whole arsenal of volunteers to assist us! June is looking to be as busy as we are transplanting our seedlings from the greenhouse, directly sowing and tending to various other garden needs! Also, we are currently building earth block garden beds in each of our main schools. Not to mention, we've also had quite a bounty of a harvest so far due to the warmer than normal weather and our season extension techniques!
Check out the photos below.
Go to our blog to read about some of our programs and other thoughts related to garden and food.
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