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.

This growing season, the trailer will be popping up at a few garden sites across the province, as we continue to develop safe and effective ways to use it. Stay tuned for updates about a launch celebration for the Grow Eat Learn Trailer in September 2025!

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

Grow Eat Learn

Garden Infrastructure Design Library

This document shows gardeners 4 different options to choose from when deciding which garden infrastructure is best for the garden needs and space that you are working on. Learn more about compost systems, water catchment and storage systems, garden beds and season-extending cold frames.

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Foraging with Kids in Mi’kma’ki

A 4-Season Foraging Activity, includes Mi’kmaw plant names, helpful identification tips and recipe ideas for 12 wild foods found in Nova Scotia.

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Garden Lessons 1-8

A series of 8 lessons on different topics that follow the process of a garden. These lessons offer detailed educational activities to support spending time in and tending to a garden.