What We Do
All of Groundbreakers educational programs focus on active, hands-on workshops and experiences that teach children and youth how to plant, grow, harvest, cook, and, best of all, eat local food.
Groundbreakers Wild
This is Groundbreakers' newest educational program that is growing in popularity. It combines outdoor and place based learning using local wild food as the focus for cultural and ecosystem experiential learning. Groundbreakers Facilitators bring K-7 classes out to local forests to teach about wild plants and foods through sensory exploration. In the outdoors students learn to identify plants, forage, prepare, cook and eat foods from our wild spaces.
Kids Dig Food Camp
This is a program that literally allows kids to bring food from ground to plate in a fun, creative, and tasty week of gardening, wild craft, farm tours, cooking, and eating!
Learning Gardens
This program brings local food and local food knowledge directly to elementary students through experiential learning workshops on understanding where our food comes from, meeting local producers, gardening and caring for school gardens, and taking part in the harvesting, cooking, and eating of locally grown foods.
School Gardens
Our primary program is to support school gardens to be not only productive sites for food production but also as valuable learning places for children to actively engage in the gardening and the environment.
Tool Library
Groundbreakers is happy to offer its Members a variety of food preserving equipment items to borrow through our Tool Library.
Youth on Farms
Through Canada Summer Jobs employment programs, Groundbreakers is able to offer agricultural training to students and paid work at a variety of local farms in the Bulkley Valley.