Lifecycles Project Society
Contact Info:
521 Superior Street
(behind the Parliament Buildings)
Victoria BC, V8V 1T7
250-383-5800
“A garden in every school” is the goal of Lifecycles Project Society. This non-profit organization located in Victoria BC teaches kids about the importance of growing food, the environment, and healthy living. The group carries out projects with schools and students in its local community and the city of Victoria. Growing Schools is a successful partner program with local schools to create an outdoor educational classroom, in the form of a food garden, on a school's property.
Caring for a garden can help kids learn:
• What plants need to grow
• How we can take care of them
• How weather affects plants
• How challenging it can be to grow a single tomato
Lifecycles offers three hands-on workshops to schools. They consist of in-door spring planting, out-door spring planting, and putting the garden to rest in the fall. Kids from the schools are able to choose what they would like to grow in the garden and what plants attract butterflies and bugs. Students learn about where the food comes from, the environmental impact of eating certain foods, and about the global food system. The program offers hands on, out of the classroom learning, for teachers and kids by allowing them to plant and take care of the garden. The gardening workshops engages kids in interesting issues that come from subjects like social studies and science.
By planting, weeding and watering students get a hands on connection to the garden. Eating the foods they have grown together, students begin to understand the role of food production in their lives.
Photo Credit: http://www.lifecyclesproject.ca/initiatives/growing_schools/
A Garden in Every School
Interested in starting a food garden in your school?
Check out the Lifecycles Project Society website at:
http://www.lifecyclesproject.ca
/initiatives/growing_schools/