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Grow-to-Learn
Schoolyard Gardens
Connecting and transforming communities.
PACT Grow-to-Learn (GTL) teaches schools and communities about food and gardening. GTL feeds families and seniors in under-resourced neighbourhoods, it creates safe, green spaces for pollinators, and it transforms communities in the Greater Toronto Area.
Our organic school gardens/urban farms provide safe, experiential, and positive learning environments and help to raise awareness of important issues related to healthy eating, nutrition, environmental sustainability, and food security in our schools and local communities.
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PACT has partnered with both of Toronto’s main school boards to expand its Grow-to-Learn program to meet community need, creating and transforming unused, often grey spaces into bountiful organic gardens where children and youth learn about harvesting food, sustainability, and community building.
Living classrooms, organic food sources, and community gathering spaces in three Toronto school gardens
Learn about our gardens
In 2023 PACT Grow-To-Learn:
DISTRIBUTED $84,330 (+42% YOY) WORTH OF FRESH PRODUCE WHICH EQUATES TO 39,452 LBS!
DISTRIBUTED 6,028 FRESH FOOD BOXES & NEW THIS YEAR 1,901
LARGE FRESH FOOD BOXES (2X THE AMOUNT OF PRODUCE THAN
A NORMAL BOX).
PACT GREW 3,966 LBS (-2% VS LY AS WE ONLY HAD ACCESS TO 2 OF 3 GARDENS) THAT’S PRODUCE WORTH ALMOST
$23,823!
SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS
Get your class involved in hands-on, outdoor learning! Open seasonally from April to mid-October
PACT Grow to Learn is a Good Food Organization
Learn more at www.goodfoodorganizations.ca
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