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Grow Your Own Microgreens
This resource shares tips on how to grow your own microgreens and an activity to engage youth in the classroom.
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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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Two-Pallet Compost Bin
This is a design for a sturdy and rodent-resistant 1-bin compost system. It is a model built to support a cafeteria to compost program at an elementary school.
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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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Webinar: Youth Food Forests
Learn about the emerging Food Forest movement and hear about both school and community-based food forests. This webinar has practical how-to advice on getting started and also share inspiring programming that provides youth with unique learning opportunities. Featuring: Our guests are Food Forest Founders Teresa Quilty (Ne’ata’q Food Forest) and Raina McDonald (Scotsburn Community Food Forest).
Click View Resource below to view a graphic recording of the webinar. To watch the webinar replay, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPzZXbiXCD0
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Webinar: Starting a School Garden Club
Hear from two educators who have developed successful school garden clubs. We learn about crucial elements such as recruitment, youth engagement and community involvement. The webinar supports the new Grow Eat Learn resource: Guide to Starting a School Garden Club, found at nourishns.ca/resource/guide-to-starting-a-school-garden-club
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Putting the Garden to Bed
This lesson is about wrapping up the season of growing. Part of this process is also thinking ahead to the next year. This lesson offers detailed educational activities to deepen the learning experience at the end of the season. This resource is part 8 of a Garden Lesson series. Check out the full series at nourishns.ca/resource/garden-lessons-1-8
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Harvest and Reflection
This lesson goes over harvesting techniques and provides some activities for the end of the season when there is produce to harvest. This resource is part 7 of a Garden Lesson series. Check out the full series at nourishns.ca/resource/garden-lessons-1-8
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What about Weeds?
Whether or not you have a garden, school grounds likely have weeds. This lesson explores dandelions and other weeds found commonly. Learn about the role they play in the ecosystem and deepen the learning experience about local plants. This resource is part 6 of a Garden Lesson series. Check out the full series at nourishns.ca/resource/garden-lessons-1-8
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Planting a Garden
This lesson covers preparing seedlings to be transplanted from the classroom to the garden as well as what do on planting day. This lesson offers detailed educational activities to deepen the learning experience of planting a garden. This resource is part 3 of a Garden Lesson series. Check out the full series at nourishns.ca/resource/garden-lessons-1-8
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The Dirt on Soil
This lesson is all about dirt. Learn about composting and soil composition- a great activity for any grade 3 teacher looking to do hands-on learning when they teach about soil. This lesson offers detailed educational activities to deepen the learning experience around soil and compost for the garden. This resource is part 5 of a Garden Lesson series. Check out the full series at nourishns.ca/resource/garden-lessons-1-8
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Critters in the Garden
This lesson explores the wildlife that lives in the garden, mostly bugs! Get into pollinators and learn about the habitat of the garden. This lesson offers educational activities to deepen the learning experience of planting a garden.. This resource is part 4 of a Garden Lesson series. Check out the full series at nourishns.ca/resource/garden-lessons-1-8
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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. 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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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. Check out the full series at nourishns.ca/resource/garden-lessons-1-8
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Apple Tree Guild: How-to Guide
Learn about how to plant a Food Forest and Apple Tree Guild. Planting and tending to an apple tree guild offers youth the opportunity to engage with a biodiverse ecosystem that produces food for people and pollinators.
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Guide to Starting a School Garden Club
This Guide to Starting a School Garden Club is designed to help an educator or extra-curricular facilitator get started with a school-wide garden club at an Elementary school (ages 5 to 12) or Junior High school (13 to 16).
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School Garden Resource Guide
There are so many amazing resources beyond Nourish, including funding opportunities for school and community gardens. Check out this external resource guide to find current grant opportunities, amazing curriculum and helpful tools that break down how to garden.
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Guide to Greenhouses
This resource can help you make decisions before selecting a greenhouse and location. It also provides helpful information about how to utilize and maintain this garden infrastructure.
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Fruit and Vegetable Garden Alphabet Colouring Book
This activity will help kids learn to name and recognize new vegetables in this printable colouring activity.
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Culinary Herbs
A learning tool that talks about different elements of growing and cooking with many different herbs. It features some growing tips and each is matched with a Nourish recipe.
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Getting Started with Hydroponics
Check out this learning tool for getting started with hydroponics in your classroom or youth space. Hydroponics is a low-barrier, indoor gardening.
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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.
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Pollinator Bingo
This activity is fun for many ages. Our Pollinator Bingo is a trivia-style activity exploring local pollinating animals and plants. This is a great activity to have on hand to engage youth in learning about local biodiversity.
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Mapping Community Supports For Your School Garden
A worksheet designed to help garden leaders assess community supports for a school garden project.
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Creating a Garden Goal
A worksheet designed to help garden leaders assess their goals and priorities are in planning to create or revive a school garden project.