Kids Grow
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| Location | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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| Introduction | Kids Grow is a collaborative, community based program run by volunteers. The goal of Kids Grow is to involve children in community gardening, to increase gardening and food production knowledge, to promote healthy and sustainable food choices, build environmental awareness and create a sense of community. We are currently running programming in the spring/summer in the Sunnyside community. Our program runs every Saturday morning from June 6th to August 29th from 10am-12pm at Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Garden. Every week, we take care of our garden, take part in an exciting workshop, enjoy a delicious healthy snack and then participate in some fun crafts, games and activities! We are a family gardening program welcoming children of all ages, adult supervision is required at all times. |
| Interests | Children's Gardening, Education, Healthy Eating, Fruits and Vegetables, Sharing and Cooperation, Environmental Stewardship, Community Building, Food Production Knowledge |
| Favorite movies | The Secret Garden (1993), Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Linnea in Monet's Garden (1995) |
| Favorite books | The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle © 1969), Compost Stew (Mary McKenna Siddals © 2010), Growing Vegetable Soup (Lois Ehlert © 1987), Up We Grow: a year in the life of a small local farm (Deborah Hodge © 2010), Watch Me Grow!: a down-to-Earth look at growing food in the city (Deborah Hodge © 2011), Gardening Under the Arch (Millarville Horticultural Club © 2006), Water, Weed and Wait (Edith Hope Fine and Angela Demos Halpin © 2010), Day by Day (Susan Gal © 2012) The Calgary Gardener: the essential guide to gardening in Alberta's chinook country (The Calgary Horticultural Society © 1996) |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
In the Kids Grow garden!