Green Thumbs, Growing Kids 
Contact Information:Phone: 416-876-1480Website: http://www.kidsgrowing.ca About Us:Green Thumbs Growing Kids offers food growing and environmental education programs in 3 inner-city schools and 2 park sites. Our programs take place in the east downtown Toronto neighbourhoods of St. James Town, Cabbagetown, and Regent Park. We now reach around 3000 children from these neighbourhoods each year. Our school food garden projects are about kids and their grownups, plants and their people. |
Group Address:
603 1/2 Parliament Street |
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4 Programs Available:
Park-based programs
More info:
Includes Spring Greenhouse programs during the school day and on weekends, and After-School programs in Spring and Fall.
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| Subcategory:Gardens
| Program updated 7:54 am on Thursday Aug. 12th, 2010.School-based programs
More info:
Includes garden projects in four schools in our area, plus other schools where the relationship is developing.
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| Program updated 7:54 am on Thursday Aug. 12th, 2010.Summer Programs
More info:
Garden workshops for children and youth, art and garden programming, and community drop-in programs at our sites.
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| Program updated 7:55 am on Thursday Aug. 12th, 2010.Workshops
More info:
Includes workshops on a wide array of topics from indoor and outdoor gardening, container gardening, composting, food and nutrition, linking the garden to the school curriculum and many more
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| Program updated 7:56 am on Thursday Aug. 12th, 2010.This page was last updated at 2010-08-12 07:56:07.