Learning in the Garden

This resource highlights ideas to bring the classroom to life in the garden.

GA, LINNourish AdminOctober 1, 2019

Where Does Your Food Come From?

This activity can help students explore where their food comes from and why it's important to consider.

LIN, GANourish AdminOctober 1, 2019

Make Your Own Seed Paper

This handout provides instructions to up-cycle used paper into 'seed paper' for your garden, and is a great lesson about reducing waste and recycling nutrients back into the garden.

GA, LINNourish AdminOctober 1, 2019

How to Vermicompost

This handout walks you through the process of creating a Vermicompost.

C, LIN, SSSGNourish AdminOctober 1, 2019

Make an Octopus Rain Barrel

Make a fun Octopus Rain Barrel with this educational activity.

PL, GA, LIN, SSSGNourish AdminOctober 1, 2019

Grow Your Own Micro-Greens

This activity page will tell you all you need to know about growing microgreens.

GA, PL, LINNourish AdminOctober 1, 2019

Planning a Harvest Meal

This document provides a great action plan for getting started in planning a harvest meal, and provides links to harvest meal stories from Green Schools in Nova Scotia.

H, SSCNourish AdminOctober 1, 2019

Preserving the Garden Harvest

Take a look at this action plan for preserving your harvest and gain inspiration from the tips and tricks throughout, including preparing sauerkraut or dehydrating veggies.

H, SSCNourish AdminOctober 1, 2019

Make an Indoor Vertical Garden

This one-pager walks through the process of creating an indoor vertical garden.

GA, PL, SG, SSSGNourish AdminOctober 1, 2019

Why Volunteer? Poster

This poster can aid in recruiting new volunteers for a school food garden.

SSSG, SSC, SG, PESNourish AdminSeptember 16, 2019

Volunteer Thank-You Ideas

Take a look through this document to inspire some fun and creative ways to celebrate your volunteers.

SSSG, SG, SSC, PESNourish AdminSeptember 16, 2019

Planning and Evaluation Worksheets

These worksheets will help you consider what you want to achieve in your school food garden and help you track how things are going.

PES, SGNourish AdminSeptember 16, 2019

Successful Fundraising Tips

School fundraisers could be a great support to sustaining your school food garden. Get some fundraising ideas here!

SSSG, SG, PESNourish AdminSeptember 13, 2019

Guide to Fundraising with Healthy Food and Beverages

Here is another handy resource about healthy fundraising to support your garden.

SSSG, SG, PESNourish AdminSeptember 13, 2019

Volunteer Thank-You Letter Template

Volunteers are such an integral part of the garden and it is important that they know that. Try using this letter of thanks to express your gratitude.

SSC, SSSG, PESNourish AdminSeptember 13, 2019

Volunteer Recruitment Template

This volunteer recruitment template would be great to keep in your school food garden binder and use when you start building your team.

SSC, SSSG, PESNourish AdminSeptember 13, 2019

In the Garden - Basinview School

Hear primary students talk about what gardeners do and what the school food garden means to them.

LIN, PL, SG, SSCNourish AdminSeptember 13, 2019

Roving Reporter: Weeding Wednesday

Join Nourish's Roving Reporter as he visits a school food garden to talk about how they sustain it through the year and over the summer.

SSSG, SSC, HNourish AdminSeptember 13, 2019

Roving Reporter: What's in a Garden?

This is a great video to show students to help them learn where their food comes from.

CWN, PL, LINNourish AdminSeptember 13, 2019

Roving Reporter: Time for a Snack

Not only are gardens fun spaces to learn but they are fun spaces to snack! Nourish Nova Scotia’s Roving Reporter visits a school food garden to talk about healthy snacking and growing.

H, PL, CWNNourish AdminSeptember 13, 2019

Guiding Practices Resources