Grow Eat Learn Trailer

Taking garden and harvesting programming on the road!

The Grow Eat Learn Trailer is designed to support community-building projects, garden activities, and food skills development- especially preserving the garden harvest and delivering Food Skills workshops with youth

As a mobile programming hub, the Grow Eat Learn trailer will activate youth-centered community initiatives focused on growing and processing food. It offers young people meaningful opportunities to connect with the land by cultivating food and building environmental stewardship skills, such as enhancing biodiversity and strengthening community resilience.

During the 2025 growing season, the trailer popped up at a few garden sites across the province. Stay tuned for updates about the Grow Eat Learn Trailer in our e-newsletter!

The trailer supports programming across four focus areas:

Garden Activities & Development

Soil preparation, seeding, planting, weeding, watering, and harvesting

Garden planning with youth input
Composting and creating circular-systems like water-catchment

Garden Infrastructure Building

Designing and constructing raised beds, benches, trellises, signage, and tool storage

Accessibility upgrades (e.g., wide paths, age-inclusive hand tools)

Food Skills Learning

Washing, chopping, drying, pickling, and preserving harvests

Hands-on food literacy education, including pizza making and canning

Equipped to activate Nourish Facilitation Guides for our Food Skills workshops

Offering a food safe environment for community food events and meals, including a solar power station, refrigeration, a triple sink, and a reusable food service setup

Climate Change Adaptation & Land Stewardship

Projects that enhance biodiversity and reduce food miles

Drought-resilient planting, shade solutions, and climate science observation

Fostering community resilience through shared food knowledge and youth-led placemaking projects

Get Involved

Check Out Trailer Activities
Stay up to date on events and activities happening with the Grow Eat Learn Trailer!

Apply for a Garden Grant
Check out the Grow Eat Learn School Garden Infrastructure Grants, aiming to support school-based growing projects over the 2025 growing season, with the help of the Province of Nova Scotia. Accepting applications until June 10th, 2025.

Get in Touch
Reach out directly to one of our Regional Garden Mentors or our School-Community Gardens Project Lead.

"Youth are so different in a garden setting, I am not sure if it is from working so close to the earth. But I find so many children that normally struggle with behaviors or big emotions thrive when they are in a garden. I also love teaching kids to cook and prep, so being able to make a meal that you started from seed provides a sense of pride like no other."

–Emily Hammond from SchoolsPlus

Featured Resources

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Grow Eat Learn Digest: Spring Edition 2026

This quarterly newspaper was created by the Grow Eat Learn team to share garden stories from the schools and youth we work with, information and tips about gardening and growing food, as well as to highlight upcoming events and programming related to school and community gardens across Mi’kma’ki (NS).

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Calendrier des semis

Ce calendrier de culture à compléter vous aidera à planifier les semis, les repiquages et les récoltes des différentes plantes de votre jardin. Vous y trouverez également un espace pour noter vos observations et les tâches à accomplir chaque mois de l’année.

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Growing Calendar

This fillable growing calendar will help you map out when to seed, transplant and harvest the different plants in your garden. There is also space to track observations and tasks each month of the year.

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Winter Sowing

Winter sowing is a fun, easy, hands-on way for students to start pollinator plants, vegetables, and herbs in recycled jugs outdoors in winter, where they sprout in DIY mini greenhouses when conditions are right. This guide provides step-by-step instructions, tips, resources, and a printable handout to support teachers and students.

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Garden Lesson 2: Starting Seeds Indoors

This lesson on starting seeds in a classroom offers detailed educational activities to deepen the learning experience of starting seeds for a garden indoors. Recently updated to include garden and food literacy worksheets. This resource is part 2 of a Garden Lesson series. Check out the full series at nourishns.ca/resource/garden-lessons-1-8

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Garden Lesson 1: Planning a garden

This preliminary garden lesson will help youth plan a garden where everything can thrive. This resource is part 1 of a Garden Lesson series but works as a standalone session. Check out the full series at nourishns.ca/resource/garden-lessons-1-8