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Build Your Classroom Worm Home
Build Your Classroom Worm BinVermicomposting is easy, fun, good for the earth and presents countless learning opportunities. Use this guide to create your classroom worm habitat - AKA a worm bin! What is a Worm Bin? A worm bin serves to contain the entire...
Pen Pals 2019-2020
Little Green Pen Pals Project We invite our Gr. 1 to Gr. 4 Little Green Thumbs classrooms to take part in Little Green Pen Pals, which engages students in cultural exchange, inquiry-based learning and literacy, as well as opportunities to build friendships across...
Quick and Easy Hand Salads Recipes!
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...
Social and emotional wellbeing: Gardens can Help!
Social & Emotional Well-being: Gardens can Help!Grow Resilient Children with a Classroom Garden Resilience (or resiliency) is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don't go as planned – an important for children (and adults). Resilience enables us to...
Seed Starting Made Easy!
Connect Your Garden to AgricultureOnce 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 it creates...
Easy Grows It: Picking Your Food Growing Containers
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,...
We’re Hiring an Operations Coordinator!
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 national...
Connect Your Garden to Agriculture!
Connect Your Garden to AgricultureOne 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...
Grants and Funding for Gardens
Garden-based Education Grants for Schools & Non-Profits A garden provides a vibrant tool for hands-on, inquiry-based learning and deepening your core curriculum. Problem solving, team building, cooperation, nutrition, gardening, and critical thinking all come to...