by Brit MacDonald | Jul 7, 2019 | Food Literacy, Resource, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized
Our Favourite Hand Salad Recipes! Hand Salads (aka Lettuce Boats or Lettuce Tacos) are quick, easy and tasty treats that your students and kids can build themselves from fresh garden ingredients. The important thing to remember when making hand salads is to use a...
by Brit MacDonald | May 17, 2019 | Food Literacy, Tips and Tricks
Connect Your Garden to Agriculture Once you’ve decided what to grow, it’s time to plant! We love starting seeds in the classroom (and at home) using pellets – either made of compressed peat or coir. Though this method is not necessary, we find that...
by Brit MacDonald | May 16, 2019 | Resource, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized
Easy Grows It: How to Choose Your Growing Containers Almost anything can serve as a container for growing plants. But how do you choose the home for your food crops? In addition to terra cotta, plastic and pressed fiber pots, you can use food-grade barrels,...
by Brit MacDonald | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
We’re Hiring an Operations Coordinator! Work with us! We’re hiring a team member for our national office, based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The Little Green Thumbs (LGT) Operations Coordinator is a key member of the Little Green Thumbs program...
by Brit MacDonald | Feb 12, 2019 | Agriculture Education, Resource, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized
Connect Your Garden to Agriculture One of the goals of the Little Green Thumbs garden is to help students create meaningful, informed connections between the food they grow and eat, and the agricultural processes involved in producing it. Food production today is a...
