This year, we received a grant from Farm to Cafeteria Canada for equipment and supplies to animate school gardens and classrooms, with edible produce grown by students. The project supports up to 11 schools to engage in Microgreens production, including the lights unit, trays, grow media and organic seed. Our seed of choice is Speckled Pea, which was bred for sprout production and grows happily under most conditions, feeding students a tasty nutritious green, raw, cut-and-come-again food. No...

This year, we’ve seen the importance of garden-based education firsthand. Because of your support, we delivered hands-on garden and food literacy programs weekly at Sprucecourt PS, Rose Avenue PS, Eastdale CI, Frankland PS, and seven more schools across the city in single workshops. We brought 12 classes  to Allan Gardens Children’s Conservatory for early spring planting workshops. At Eastdale, students planted sweet potato slips in June and in October they harvested more than 180 kgs of...

By Aiden Crosby Back to school and back in the gardens! Before school ended, the gardens were still slowly adjusting from the cold start...