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Our mission: To work with urban children, youth and their families to learn about, grow and prepare fresh foods, cultivated in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Green Thumbs Growing Kids offers food growing and environmental education programs in 3 inner-city schools and 2 park sites. Our programs take place in the east downtown Toronto neighbourhoods of St. James Town, Cabbagetown, and Regent Park.We now reach around 3000 children from these neighbourhoods each year.Our school food garden projects are about kids and their grownups, plants and their people.
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What's New!
Green Thumbs presenting at the Toronto Food Policy Council Meeting
The "Toronto Food Policy Council will be holding its first-of-the-year public meeting on February 10, 2010. With big changes afoot in the world of food and education, the meeting will explore school gardening, food literacy, the recently announced ban on junk food in schools and, of course, any recent news concerning the development of Toronto Public Health's Food Strategy".
Our very own Sunday Harrison is one of the panelists speaking on the topic of school food gardening and food literacy. The other panelists are Talia Singer, Toronto Public Health Nurse, and Wai Yin Mok, Vice-Principal of James S. Bell Jr. Middle School.
Again the meeting is taking place on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, in Committee Room #4, at Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West.
Winter workshops & projects
Although it's cold and there's frost outside, Green Thumbs Growing Kids is busy with winter workshops! We are continuing with Stone Soup and seed saving classroom workshops, experimenting with season extension techniques outdoors, organizing cooking sessions and growing under lights with middle school students, planning for upcoming projects and educational workshops in the new year and many other exciting endeavours! We also recently ran a seed saving workshop with St. James Town youth in collaboration with U4Change and organized a well attended teacher workshop in collaboration with the Garden and Food Curriculum Working Group.
Content last modified on February 03, 2010, at 04:24 PM EST