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There are a variety of TDSB Educational Partners with expertise in urban gardening and food growing on school grounds. We encourage schools to deepen their knowledge and connect with the following organizations for educational workshops, garden coaching and field trips to urban farms.
Workshops
Workshops
Learn about pollinators from facilitators who have spent decades educating and advocating for pollinators and the environment overall. Contact: shelly@beeambassadors.org
Community Learning and Engagement Program: Food justice workshops connected to school gardens. Contact: info@foodshare.net
Green Thumbs Growing Kids:
Urban Trees From Seed: Students pot, take care, nurture and plant urban-tolerant native species of trees and learn from an Indigenous facilitator.
Contact:info@greenthumbsto.org
Vermicomposting workshops including assembling your own classroom vermicomposter.
Contact: education@greenventure.ca
Multi-session Gardening in Your Classroom Workshops
Workshops exploring alternative growing methods using hydroponics.
PACT:
Workshops, garden tours, and field trips to urban farms.
Contact: gtlworkshops@pactprogram.ca
Garden Coaching and Support
Garden Coaching and Support
Community Food Growing program: Fee-for-service offerings for schools wanting to set up gardens.
Contact: orlando@foodshare.net
School Food Garden: Provides food growing and environmental education programs in support of school food gardens at select elementary schools.
Contact: info@greenthumbsto.org
Multi-session Gardening in Your Classroom Workshops
Miinikaan Innovation in Design:
Indigenous Teaching Gardens: Miinikaan ('the SEED' in Ojibwe) offers consulting, landscape design, and garden installation.
Contact: https://www.miinikaan.com/contact-us
PACT:
Workshops, garden tours, and field trips to urban farms.
Contact: gtlworkshops@pactprogram.ca
Hands in the Garden program: gardening, growing food, and learning about the natural environment and sustainability.
Contact: seedlingstories@gmail.com
Field Trips and Virtual Garden Tours
Field Trips and Virtual Garden Tours
PACT:
Farmer for a Day: Field trips to urban farms on TDSB school grounds.
Contact: gtlworkshops@pactprogram.ca
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