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The Edible Garden Project
QuibusdaThe Edible Garden Project is the heart of We Grow Food. Through partnerships with schools, community groups, and neighbourhood organizations, we design, build, and support gardens that provide hands-on learning, fresh produce, and shared spaces for connection. These gardens inspire people of all ages to grow their own food, learn new skills, and experience the joy and confidence that comes from tending and harvesting together.
Edible Garden Packages
Every garden tells a story — and we’re here to help you grow yours. Explore our program options below to find the experience that best fits your school or community group.
SCHOOLS
Multi-Class
Multi-Class Package
The Multi-Class Package is designed for schools that want multiple classes to participate in a shared garden experience. Students take part in hands-on workshops such as building wicking pots and painting garden plaques in the morning, followed by planting the school’s edible garden in the afternoon. This package can also be split across two half days to better support school schedules and class rotations. It’s a great way to bring an entire school community together through growing, learning, and creating.
SCHOOLS
Single Group
Single Group Package
The Garden Club package includes all of the same core elements as our multi-class package, including the wicking pot workshop, plaque painting, and garden planting, and can also be delivered over one full day or two half days depending on your schedule. Because this package focuses on a single group of students , there is more time for hands-on learning, leadership, and exploration. Schools can also choose from a selection of curriculum-connected add-on modules to deepen the learning experience and tailor it to their students’ interests and grade level.
COMMUNITY
Non-Profit
Non-Profit Package
The Non-Profit Package supports community groups and non-profit organizations who want to create or enhance shared garden spaces. This offering includes garden installation and tailored guidance based on the unique needs, goals, and capacity of each group. Support may include planning, planting, landscaping design, education, culinary lessons, or seasonal maintenance strategies. Each project is developed collaboratively to help strengthen food access, community connection, and local growing confidence.
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A Message To The Schools
Our team helps schools plan and build the gardens alongside a garden maintenance team from the school and community.
We Grow Food provides hands-on training to help schools and community groups confidently care for their edible gardens throughout the growing season. Our training covers garden mapping, plant identification (including the difference between annuals and perennials), weeding, trellising, pruning, watering, and harvesting techniques, along with how to track and share the harvest. We also support groups in seed saving, succession planting, and the opening and closing of the garden each year. These practices are taught with the goal of helping each garden become a sustainable, student-led program that continues to grow and thrive over time.
The garden maintenance team should be a group made up of students, teachers, and parents that
are committed to learning and caring for the edible garden installed at the school. Students at the schools help to build raised garden beds, fill them with soil, and plant edible crops. The beds are then labelled to help with identification. Students learn how to properly care for and maintain the garden.
103+
Schools Have Joined The Edible Garden Project
As of November 2025
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Further Information
Sharing Success
One of the strongest signs of success was visible right away. Students who participated in the project proudly brought their friends to see the gardens during lunch and recess, excited to share the work they had done. At the end of the day, families stopped by during pick-up to admire the space, ask questions, and express their enthusiasm. Many parents and caregivers even signed up to help with garden care.
Schools later shared stories of how they used their harvests. Some classes made salads together, others packaged produce to send home alongside pantry items, and several schools distributed their harvest to local seniors’ residences. Each garden became a source of nourishment, learning, and community connection.
Summer Maintenance
Each school approaches summer garden care in a way that fits its own community. Some schools invite families to sign up for one- or two-week care rotations over the summer, while others have on-site daycares that tend the garden while school is out. In some cases, neighbours or community members volunteer to care for the space and share or donate the harvest.
To support this process, We Grow Food provides each school with a summer information packet that includes recommendations, care instructions, and guidance for maintaining a healthy garden throughout the break. However it is organized, the garden becomes a shared effort, bringing students, families, and community members together to care for and enjoy what they have grown.