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New teachers learn to grow organic food and teach across the curriculum in a learning garden

Vancouver, British Columbia

In this student-led teaching and learning garden on our university campus, graduate and undergrad students from Education and Land & Food Systems collaborate with new teacher candidates, helping them learn how to grow organic food and teach across the curriculum in their school own gardens.

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Today We Are Going To Change the World – Connecting Communities

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Two schools from diverse neighborhoods come together to learn about each other’s community and help their green spaces. One has a large indigenous community, the other with a large immigrant population. The students will learn about the people and places that make those communities unique.

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Sustainable Food for Food Security

Port Elgin, New Brunswick

Our goal is to create a community where we grow and prepare food helping to provide food security for the students of our school. The food packages prepared will need little or no preparation beyond reheating. Informational and how to cook workshops will be held to help inform students.

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Traditional Foods of Amiskwaciwâskahikan

Edmonton, Alberta

We would invite an Elder or Knowledge keeper in for 2 days to speak with each class of students about the traditional foods of this area. We would invite them to bless our garden, suggest vegetables and other to plant, and to storytell in our courtyard space.

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Community Garden and Beehive

Pierrefonds, Quebec

We will build a community garden along with adding a beehive to help the garden flourish and protect the declining bumblebee species. This project will allow youth to organize and maintain a garden. The beehive will allow youth to understand the importance of the species to our future.

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Community Builders

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Our class hopes to rebuild our community planter boxes for our school yard. Earlier this year our existing planters were demolished due to old age. The students of Room 32 decided they would like to rebuild the planter boxes for our school to grow flower and vegetables gardens.

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Greenway’s Warm Welcome –

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Winnipeg winters are cold! We will create ‘warm welcome’ packages—scarves, bannock and a friendly letter—to share with a newcomer group. Students will learn about indigenous culture, local newcomer organizations and be welcoming and neighbourly while sharing with our new community members.

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School Yard Nature Zone

Montreal West, Quebec

The E.B.S school yard nature zone is a proposed space that will connect students and the school community with nature. The area will allow students for hands on experiences that engage with nature by growing food to harvest and enjoy.

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Food Literate Leaders

Toronto, Ontario

Students at Regenesis Ryerson would like to host sustainable food education workshops in tandem with an awareness campaign and a shared community meal made up entirely of local, seasonal and organic food. The project aims to create positive behavioural change amongst student participants.

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Grade 1 Three Sisters Planting

WINNIPEG, British Columbia

We will learn about the Indigenous perspective of community caring by growing the Three Sisters crops

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Indoor School Garden

Airdrie, Alberta

Our school would like to create an indoor garden with a focus on growing plants indigenous to Alberta, as well as other plants (edible and otherwise). Alberta has long, cold winters, and we would like kids to understand how to tend and raise plants.

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Community plant-in and food celebration

Toronto, Ontario

At a sustainable food community gathering with Action Against Hunger Canada, we will learn about urban gardening and plant food garden boxes together, and then enjoy a potluck with a ‘fireside chat’ on sustainability and food justice. The gardens will be donated to a local shelter who will continue to grow and enjoy the produce.

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Raised Food Gardens

mississauga, Ontario

Eco club plans to create rolling raised gardens that can go outside during the day and roll inside at night. We will create four to six of these gardens.

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Kids learn from Elders

Victoria, British Columbia

Our plan is to bring together first nations elders and youth to share their knowledge on how to be sustainable, to be kind to the environment and everything that lives there. We would host an event where Indigenous elders would share stories about using things from nature in a sustainable way.

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Coronation Elementary School revitalization

Saint Laurent, Quebec

The current school garden at Coronation needs more development to revitalize the space. Seating is needed a long with a tool shed and modification to the current raised planters that are full of the roots from the close by city trees.

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Infusing indigenous perspectives

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Students in the school (N- Gr. 6) will work to recognize the impact of social injustices in Canada on it’s citizens both historically and currently.

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Water Sacred and Scarce

Mississauga, Ontario

The Project ‘Water: Sacred and Scarce’ will involve a cultural exchange between Indigenous & non-Indigenous youth using Skype in the classroom and other tech tools to empower students as leaders to protect water in their communities and homes.

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School Community Gardens

Winnipeg, Manitoba

We noticed a need for healthier food options for our school / community. Our classroom would like to plant sustainable foods such as, vegetables in our new flower beds. This way we can harvest vegetables for our community while also teaching about sustainable food.

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Native Medicinal Plant Trail

London, Ontario

• To Expand our Native Plant Trail • Update our Native Trail Guide • Write & Share Stories of Native Plants & Trees • Teach how to propagate endangered, threatened and rare native plant medicines from this endangered bioregion.

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Dana Street Community Garden

Brockville, Ontario

We are an ECO Schools team who are trying to educate our school and community about growing healthy foods in a new community garden in the green space across from our school that we and other community partners acquired from the city this summer.

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Grow Calgary Pumpkins

Calgary, Alberta

As part of a cyclical inquiry into seasons, students will learn how to save pumpkin seeds in Fall and sprout them in Spring using class generated compost. They will donate their sprouts to Grow Calgary, an urban community farm which grows fresh produce for social agencies with food access programs.

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Tower Garden Project

Aurora , Ontario

My high school Autism Community Classroom has been growing vegetables and plants for several years as well as maintaining the school gardens. This year our classroom would like to continue with and expand our growing season! We are excited to learn how to grow a variety of vegetables and plants in a sustainable way. We are …

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Environmental Workshops

Toronto, Ontario

Students at Regenesis UTSC are looking to offer experiential learning workshops once a month on campus. The workshops will cover various current environmental topics, and offer an opportunity for students to learn and act upon such issues within their community.

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Planting plants for better air

Victoria, British Columbia

For this project, we would like to give the opportunity to all classes to have plants inside their classrooms for k to 4 in our school . Classes will get to watch the plants grow as they get bigger, to keep kids interested in plants. They will be guided by the youth leaders to get …

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Sprouting Seeds

Barrie, Ontario

Students learn about the links between habitat, watersheds and human health. Students will set up starter gardens for growing native aquatic or terrestrial plants in their classroom. These plants will be planted in the schoolyard enhancing the local ecosystem.

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Garden of Knowledge

Toronto, Ontario

The children from JK and SK will have a vertical garden inside the classroom using as much as possible recycled materials. There they they will first plant the seeds and care of the plants before moving them into the outdoors garden in spring. There will be a mix of plants: vegetables and flowers.

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Climate Change and Sustainable Food Choices: Mind Bombs!

Castlegar, British Columbia

Mind bombs are short, gutsy, globally conscious works of art that campaign for social change. Grades 4-6 students will create video-based mind bombs and test and track their impact. Their mind bombs will focus on Indigenous and other perspectives on sustainable food in the face of climate change.

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Pollinators and Urban Food Sources

Mississauga, Ontario

Linking with our School Mascot (Briarwood Bee), our students in Grade 2 along with our Green Team have been exploring the role of bees and butterflies in pollinating our local (urban) food sources.

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Language in the forest

Canyon, British Columbia

Surrounding our ‘school forest tipi classroom’ (1 acre) we would plant a variety of Indigenous plants/bushes/trees. We would label each with their Ktunaxa name & traditional use using a water proof sign on a metal stake at the plant’s base. We would partner with our Lower Kootenay Band – Ktunaxa.

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Dream Garden

Barrie, Ontario

To build an outdoor classroom with garden where teachers can bring students to learn in nature. Students will be more engaged in environmental education and can learn about indigenous culture. The space will be open for all classes, regardless of subject.

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Raspberries for all

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Reclaim a long forgotten flower bed and transforming it into a raspberry garden to be enjoyed by all. Berries for our community, flowers for the pollinators and habitat for our wildlife.

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Habitat/Bird Garden

Pierrefonds, Quebec

Secondary 2 students and Green Team members created a habitat garden 2 years ago to attract birds and pollinating insects. The bird feeders broke and need to be replaced, and we need squirrel proof poles to suspend them from. We will plant native flowers, shrubs and plants for pollinating insects.

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Tower Garden

Anzac, Alberta

Students will be in charge of the school’s tower garden project. They will be growing vegetables for the community.

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St. Basil’s Food Garden

Toronto, Ontario

Our vision is to engage and connect the “special needs” ME/DD students at our school to nature through gardening. This endeavour will afford them an opportunity to develop new skills, confidence, and pride through this real world experience.

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St. Thomas Aquinas Sustainable Garden Initiative

Oakville, Ontario

The initiative concerns the construction of a sustainable peace garden for our school community over the course of the 2018-2019 school year that follows the following guiding principles: environmental awareness, ecological sustainability, and a peaceful reflection space that improves mental health.

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Bats Are Threatened Species, B.A.T.S

Penticton, British Columbia

I want to raise awareness about threatened bat species in the South Okanagan by conducting Indigenous Ecotours, in addition to building and mounting bat homes with the help of local schools. I will monitor the bat boxes and share vlogs of the bats utilizing their newly built homes.

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Robins Nest

Lacombe, Alberta

We are in phase 2 of creating an edible garden outdoor learning space for students. Last year we raised enough funds to purchase picnic tables and build raised garden beds. This year we would like to plant edible trees and shrubs to beautify the area and plant vegetables in the raised garden beds.

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Kids Garden

T'it'q'et, Lillooet, British Columbia

The preschool aged children and their community members-made up of youth, elders, parents, and guardians will pool resources to grow as much food for the people in the T’it’q’et community. We will work with the food security people, the local gardeners to produce and harvest food.

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Connecting students with local indigenous knowledge

Nepean, Ontario

Several classes at our school walk weekly to a nearby forest, where they have opportunities to build connections to and appreciate their local environment. We would like to invite a local Algonquin elder to come to the forest with us, and to impart stories and knowledge from their culture.

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Seeds of Hope: Food Security for Oak Lake

Oak Lake, Manitoba

We will plant a community garden for all to access including pollinator plants to help the bee population.We will educate the public on gardening techniques to help their food security and why it’s important to plant bee friendly flowers in our yards.We aim to provide food security for our families.

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Cedarcrest Public School Garden Enhancement Project

Saint Laurent, Quebec

The current garden at C.P.S. needs new development to broaden the appeal to the community as a whole. An outdoor classroom, and more growing space is needed to replace the current garden.

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Pollinator Garden

Lacombe, Alberta

Our grade 3 classes will identify and learn how to create and enhance wildlife habitat in our community outdoor living space, identify what plants are most attractive to pollinators, make houses and shelters for butterflies and/or bees and create sanctuaries for these pollinators.

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Kisipatnahk Cultural Garden

Maskwacis, Alberta

We hope to create a garden space which is accessible. This space will feature native, traditional-use vegetation which will serve both aesthetically for visitors and functionally for the cultural practices of the school. Students will be able to make observations relating to curriculum content.

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Indigenous garden

Sooke, British Columbia

The project will include the completion of the outdoor classroom as well as go towards the Indigenous garden in the same area of the classroom. The Students will be working with Elders learning the plants and purpose for the plants.

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The Garden of Life: Lessons and Recipes

Scarborough, Ontario

To create and print a book for the community based on our learning and experiences with our school garden. Ten life lessons our garden taught us along with healthy and simple recipes shared by families in the community will be used to promote a connection to nature and a healthy lifestyle.

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Vegetable Garden

St.Thomas, Ontario

We would like to create an outdoor vegetable garden featuring raised beds. Classes will partner to build community and meet various curriculum expectations.

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Rebuilding Our School Garden

MONTRÉAL, Quebec

John Caboto Academy has had a fully functional school garden in the yard for 8 + years. Since we use untreated wood because we eat our veggies- the wood has decomposed and we need to rebuild our beautiful garden. Students run the garden afterschool in their Green Club.

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As the River Flows into the Lake

Mississauga, Ontario

The students have renamed our two gyms-“The River” and “The Lake”. The names will be posted in English, French and Ojibwe. We our focusing on water and it’s importance to us, First Nations peoples and our community. Our long term goal is to obtain a water refilling station for our school.

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People’s Garden Greenhouse

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

We are a community vegetable garden at the Sault Ste. Marie campus of Algoma University. Our goal is to build a greenhouse to expand our garden and our growing season here in northern Ontario, to feed more hungry students fresh and locally grown produce.

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You Are What You Eat

London, Ontario

The Grade 8 students of Byron Southwood PS have an immediate plan to take action and create a school wide composting program. Composting has many benefits and protecting our watershed from unnecessary fertilizers and chemicals is crucial.

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Community Gardens

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Our Green Team at Sherwood School is working toward initiatives that support sustainability in our community. To this end we would like to partner with a local community organization to develop community gardens to grow vegetables. The food will be shared with the community.

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Young Hunters: Keeping the traditions alive

Sagamok, Ontario

Youth from Sagamok Anishnawbek will learn hunting practices on the land to be self sustainable for wild meat that will then be distributed to the community

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water collection/ kindness garden

Merritt, British Columbia

The funds will help us create a project that will divert rain water off of the gardens gazebo into a dry creek bed to help demonstrate water collection/ conservation methods that can be used in sustainable landscaping or gardening.

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We Are Here

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Ongoing project/ group of Indigenous students from Grade 5-8 who are in care, and/or students interested in learning more about Indigenous culture in Canada. Students will help plan and engage in group experiences that address their personal identity and culture, and then share with their community.

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General Wolfe School Garden Boxes

Winnipeg, Manitoba

We would like to build raised garden boxes to plant blueberry and raspberry plants in our outdoor classroom area. We have built 3 large planters in the area, 2 for vegetables and one for sage and sweetgrass. As well we built a composter last year and would like to add 27 feet of garden boxes.

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Exploring Indigenous Perspectives

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Students will start by learning our national anthem in Cree and exploring the treaty statement read over the morning announcements and understanding its significance. We will continue to learn about language, traditional heritage and citizenship in Canada

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Engaging Rural Northern High School Students in Land-based, Hands-on Science Projects

Terrace Bay, Ontario

The purpose of this project is to create a hands-on, project-based learning activity in Outdoor Environmental Science (OES) that allows students to engage in science in a way that engages students in local projects, working on local issues, with community-based organizations.

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Medicinal Salve Making Workshops

Vancouver, British Columbia

Lori Snyder, a local indigenous herbalist and educator, will lead the students in a medicinal salve making workshop. Each student will take home their own salve made with infused plant oil and local beeswax, which is excellent for cuts, bruises, inflammation, chapped skin and sunburned skin.

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Our Outdoor Garden

Whitbourne, Newfoundland & Labrador

We have a really cool indoor Garden from our little green thumbs program. We have a monthly salad day and the kids love the program. We would like to expand our program to have an outdoor garden so we can expand our salad days with other classes.

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ziizibaakodokaan (sugar camp)

Serpent River First Nation, Ontario

We will be establishing a ziizibaakodokaan (sugar camp) at our maple sugar bush at Nimkii Aazhibikong; a lands based ojibwe language camp. We will be learning from our elders the knowledge of maple syrup, maple candies, and maple sugar making while incorporating the Ojibwe language to our activities

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FDK Natural Play Area

Brigden, Ontario

Currently our FDK play area consists of a sand box and open grass area, surrounded by a fence. We are hoping to improve this area by changing the landscape to a more natural one by introducing natural play areas as described from indigenous learning perspectives.

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In Their Shoes

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Through education and citizenship, the goal of this action project is to bring awareness to child welfare issues across Canada by making moccasins for Indigenous foster children. Once students have created their moccasins, they will have an opportunity to deliver them to appropriate organizations.

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Classroom Garden

Winnipeg, Manitoba

We would like to purchase indoor grow light gardens for two primary classrooms at Meadows West School.  Over the fall and winter, the children will experience planting herbs, caring for them as they grow and then harvest and cook with them.  In the spring, they will plant veggies to take home and transplant in their home …

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Fleetwood Family Outdoor Classroom Project

Lethbridge, Alberta

Our project began three years ago and has included hundreds of students in that time. We want to create an outdoor learning space that provides a means of enhancing student learning, fostering ecological stewardship, and bolstering creativity with sustainability and First Nations values in mind.

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Healing Forest at Carseland Elementary

Carseland, Alberta

The grade 5/6 class at Carseland Elementary school would like to expand the outdoor garden and classroom space by creating a healing forest in the same area. This space would provide students with an opportunity to learn more about Indigenous perspectives and history.

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Food Sustainability Workshops

Toronto, Ontario

Regenesis UTSC will host workshops specific to various food sustainability aspects, in order to promote change within their campus community. The workshops will be open to students and staff members of UTSC.

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Coin de croissance – a place of growth

Cobble Hill, British Columbia

We are currently working on developing a 1000 square foot garden space on our school ground, to offer and explore a range of exciting learning opportunities around organic, holistic and sustainable food systems, including composting, raised-beds, irrigation and aquaponics.

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Seed to Seed, Elder to Youth

Blockhouse, Nova Scotia

This project will bring the children of our school and the wider community into greater knowledge and sharing of traditional Mi’kmaq history, culture and agriculture through a series of events and workshops and the planting of a traditional food garden culminating in a fall feast of Mi’kmaw food.

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Slow Food Revolution

Markham, Ontario

The project will educate youth about hidden health and environmental consequences of fast, convenient food consumption and help them to reconnect with food by cooking and handling each ingredient. It will inspire confidence and skills to prepare simple, healthy meals using sustainably sourced food.

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Elder Visits: Legends, Medicinal Herbs, Drumming and Culture

Lacombe, Alberta

A series of 4 Elder visits from Wolf Creek Elders & area Cree, Metis and Blackfoot Elders to teach our school population about four areas.1. Legends 2. Medicinal Herbs 3. Drumming 4. Culture ; language To further our introduction to native culture by inviting elders and learning through activity.

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