Leçon de jardinage 1: Planifier le potager
Cette leçon préliminaire de jardinage aidera les jeunes à comprendre comment planifier un jardin où tout peut s’épanouir. Récemment mise à jour pour inclure des fiches d’activités sur le jardinage et la littératie alimentaire. Cette ressource fait partie 1 d’une série de leçons sur le jardinage.
Grow Eat Learn Digest: Winter 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).
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.
Grow Eat Learn Digest: Fall 2025
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).
Fall Planting Guide for School and Community Gardens
The growing season is longer than ever, meaning school gardens can grow food in the fall when class is back. Check out this guide to learn more about what to plant, when and different strategies for growing food until December! Features information on cover crops, row cover, planting perennials before winter and lots of ideas on what plants to grow.
Grow Your Own Microgreens
This resource shares tips on how to grow your own microgreens and an activity to engage youth in the classroom.
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.
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
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
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