Just received: a nice link from Yard Care Gurus! Ultimate Beginners Guide To Gardening With Kids

Students, teachers and volunteers have been busy at work this Spring in getting our school gardens ready for the growing season! Despite...

Our Urban Roots Youth program kicked off this spring in April with helping hands eager to get dirty after a long winter. The spring...

From September to December 2017, eight 3rd year Humber nursing students had the opportunity to work with Green Thumbs and Rose Avenue...

Maseeda Majeed and Kylee Hinde have been working here at Green Thumbs this spring, and they’ve got stories to tell! Maseeda (right) with...

Natalie Meyers, one of the animators of this exciting new program working at Nelson Mandela Park PS shares this: “We had a wonderful...

Patricia decided to plant a garden. She wanted to grow all the things that had the same first letter as her name, but the only plant she...

Five-year-olds don’t always want to eat their vegetables. But when they’ve spent time exploring a schoolyard garden and picking their...

Call for Division! Native Plant Divisions for our Biodiversity Corner This fall, Green Thumbs is setting roots in Regent Park. In...

In June, our co-op students Prushodhj Niranjan and Pantha Azmee finished up at GTGK. They were superstars! And we will miss them....

It’s an exciting time for school gardens – please join us physically and metaphysically in our celebrations of a new season of growth and...

We are very pleased to announce that the funding received by us on behalf of gardens at Sprucecourt PS and Rose Ave. PS was well spent...

On Aug. 18, seven participants in the Urban Agriculture Summit, hailing from as far away as Oregon, attended a Green Thumbs Growing Kids...

Being a “hands on learning”, I always enjoyed arts and crafts in school. Creating an example prior to our kids program, I loved choosing...

Students building an earth block garden bed Want to know how to build a garden bed with children on a school ground? Come join our Urban...

Timothy (named after the hay I hope he likes) Bun-Bun (name given by the family who rescued him) has joined us at GTGK! He’s a 3 mo old...

What to do before the weather dips below zero degrees and damages the still-green tomatoes dangling from your plants? What to do when you...

Do you feel that? It’s the cool fall breeze rustling your hair. Do you hear that? That’s the sound of children’s voices gleefully picking...