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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tips for Feeding Your Worms!
What do worms eat? How much should you feed them? How should you prepare the food? Questions – answered!
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Holiday Vacation for Your Classroom Garden & Plants
Holiday Vacation for Your Classroom Plants & GardenOne of the trickiest obstacles in your classroom garden is managing holidays, but don’t despair! A Little Green Thumbs garden is designed to let you leave your garden over weekends and week-long school...
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Calculate Your Ideal Worm Herd
Calculate Your Ideal Worm Herd Ready to reduce your food waste, give back to your school garden and give students an opportunity to observe a thriving ecosystem? Why not bring a vermin-compost bin (a.k.a. a worm bin) into your classroom and open up a world of...
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