At Green Thumbs (https://greenthumbsto.org) our mission is to cultivate environmental stewardship through hands-on garden and food education for urban children and their communities. We run programs at multiple elementary school gardens, greenhouses, summer and youth programs. An important element of our programs is composting and supporting healthy soil, by which we mean biodiverse, living soil full of microbes who do the heavy lifting of transforming minerals into plant food. Using a worm bin, we will investigate the compost made by our vermi-friends, under microscopes.
We will work with teachers to bring the tiny life forms into focus, learning from expert microbe farmers! Everything is supplied for the workshop. This program is for grades 3-8, and starts in January. Each workshop is 50 mins and includes an expert in soil life and microscopy, and a worm wrangler!
For more information,
email programs@greenthumbsto.org with
“Teaming with Life” in the subject line.
Instructor: Microscopy
Yousef Abdelsalam is a graduate of the Soil Food Web microscopy course. He is
passionate about urban food security and soil health, and experiments with various growing methods, as well as raising chickens.
Instructor: Vermiculture
Cheyenne Sundance is a greens farmer in Ontario who has raised composting worms for many years! She has grown with vermiculture practices for over four years. She is passionate about local food and organic agriculture practices.
This program is FREE to schools thanks to a grant from TELUS Friendly Future Foundation
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