Local Food - Know It, Sow It, Grow It, Eat It
Our Programs
Groundbreakers currently supports the gardens at all of local, public, elementary schools.
Our organization works in partnership with each school to develop garden areas with raised beds. Kids from the schools help plant, water, weed, and harvest the gardens.
Our primary goal of this program is to support school gardens so that they are not only productive sites for food production, but also valuable learning places for children to actively engage in the gardening and the environment.
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.
Through support from the Canada Summer Jobs employment program, Groundbreakers is able to connect local food producers with young people looking for work and training on a variety of local farms in the Bulkley Valley.
Youth receive hands-on farming and gardening experience that can lead to future employment in the industry or give them the skills and confidence to start their own agriculture related business. Producers receive young people to work with them through Groundbreakers' wage subsidy and hiring program.