Our Vision:
A Garden in Every School; A School in Every Garden.

Our Mission:
Plant It, Grow It, Eat It!

Little Green Thumbs is investing fully in the future by connecting children to the miracle of growing plants from seed through to bearing fruit. In our program, children are amazed and inspired. They begin choosing to eat healthy food. They start their own gardens, and learn to relate to their environment in a whole new way, learning stewardship, responsibility and teamwork. In their care, a plant lives or dies. In their hands, the planet thrives or declines.

Little Green Thumbs is committed to the transformation of young people’s relationship to food. Through a “seed to salad” in-class program, children participate in the empowering and enriching experience of sowing, growing, harvesting and eating their own vegetables.

In its pilot year, 2003-04, five schools participated in the Little Green Thumbs program. Over the years participation has increased to many schools planting, growing and eating across Alberta and Saskatchewan! Little Green Thumbs is a grass roots community phenomenon. By 2007, the combined media readership (newspapers and magazines) and viewer audience (television) was over 2.5 million people in Canada. In the first year it was featured by A Channel, Shaw Cable, Global TV, The Calgary Herald, Saturday Night Magazine and EnRoute Magazine.

The "garden" of the LGT Garden Kits is the Maxikap system: www.buyagreenhouse.com/greenhouse_accessories_maxikap.php This system includes, in one design - soil, container, fertilizer and watering system.The "sun" of the LGT Garden Kits is a 1000 watt full spectrum grow light system.

As the founder of Little Green Thumbs I am delighted to share that the project has grown bigger than me and expanded across Western Canada. Please contact the key stakeholders and organizations now running with the program.

In looking to the future, I also acknowledge my dear friend, Tom Duncan, as a co-founder, for his compassion, generosity and wisdom in helping launch the early phases of the program many years ago.

Nicholas Jones
Founder