Grow Eat Learn Digest: Winter Edition 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).
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).
Grow Your Own Microgreens
This resource shares tips on how to grow your own microgreens and an activity to engage youth in the classroom.
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
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
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).
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.
Food Literacy Education Guide
This guide aims to help educators and policy makers see the possibilities of food-based learning – planting seeds of inspiration and providing a better understanding of what food literacy is, and how to incorporate it more holistically into the school, the classroom, and the curriculum.