Grow Eat Learn

Where gardens grow, communities thrive, and climate action takes root.

The Grow Eat Learn Program provides support, mentorship and tools for building youth-centered gardens and growing spaces on school and community grounds in Nova Scotia. Growing projects range from food forests, to garden beds, to indoor hydroponics, and more.

By engaging in garden programs, young people learn essential skills related to the life cycle of plants, growing and harvesting food, and caring for the environment. They also experience the power of people coming together to act on important global crises, like climate change.

Through Grow Eat Learn, we are building a provincial network of growers, educators and youth to share knowledge and cultivate youth engagement in the garden. The network is supported by Regional Garden Mentors (located in Halifax, Cape Breton, and Northern Mainland) who are providing support and mentorship for growing projects across Nova Scotia, and focused engagement with Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian Communities.

Virtual School Garden Support Drop-Ins

A themed monthly drop-in space on Zoom for educators & faculty working in school gardens. Bring your questions & learn!

Come with questions about your own school garden work, learn from peers and our mentor team about topics like putting the garden to bed, microgreens in the classroom and gardening as climate action. We start with 15 minutes of knowledge sharing then open the floor for your questions and stories about youth gardens across the province. Get to know fellow school gardeners and learn about what is working and not working among the 100+ school gardens growing across the province.

Wednesday once a month from 3:30-4:30pm

Coming up…

April 29th | Climate Action in the Garden

View previous drop-in recordings here.

Featured Learning Hub Resources

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Moth Gardens: Habitat for Midnight Pollinators

Within this resource youth explore the delightful and mysterious nature of moths, and learn about their integral role within the food web — both as pollinators of flowering plants — and as an indispensable source of nutrients for birds, insects, amphibians and many other animals.

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Moth ID Guide

This learning tool features profiles of 10 moths found in Nova Scotia. Learn how to identify them and what plants they have special relationships with. Hint: you may find the moth if you can spot it’s favourite plant.

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Garden Climate Action Legend

Our Garden Climate Action Legend was created in response to growing awareness that youth are experiencing climate change —and its associated anxiety. Gardening can be a source of hope and empower young people to take meaningful action for their communities. The Garden Climate Action Legend sorts gardening into six climate action themes. In this resource, you‘ll find examples and activities for each climate action theme that show how gardening is a form of climate action.

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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.

Get Involved

Stay up to date on Grow Eat Learn
Fill in our form to share your questions, find support, or express your interest in connecting to the Grow Eat Learn network.

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

Stay Tuned for Trailer Activities
Our newly designed Grow Eat Learn trailer will help support on-the-ground community projects and youth-focused activities.

"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."