We Grow Gardeners
Connect With the Food You Grow
We bring people together to grow food, connect to Land, and nourish ourselves in a resilient food system.
Everything You Need to Grow
Instantly download all the information and have the supplies at your home with all you need to grow the freshest mushrooms right on your kitchen countertop!
This is no ordinary mushroom grow kit. We’ve teamed up with Circular Harvest to offer you the quality mushrooms and expert knowledge and secrets!
We’ve created a complete mushroom growing experience that includes:
Circular Harvest Mushroom Grow Kit
Gather Gardeners Grow Guide PDF
Printable and digital checklists
Common growing mistakes and how to prevent them
Tips from mushroom farmers themselves
Mushroom care tracking charts
How to harvest, store, and cook mushrooms
10 fabulous recipes for quick meals or fancy dinner parties
FAQ’s, and more!
Decide between our favourite mushrooms:
1) Our most versatile umami-flavoured Blue Oysters
2) The star of the show tasty seafood alternative Pink Oyster
3) Our most popular Lion’s Mane with flavour and health benefits
4) The nutty-flavoured Chestnut mushroom that you’ll fall in love with
CANADA ONLY. Our mushroom grow kits are only available for shipping within Canada.
Pre-order today. We’ll send the Unit Plan this summer and ship the mushroom grow kit in the Fall when you and your classroom are ready to start growing!
Bring science to life with the ultimate, cross-curricular Gourmet Mushroom Classroom Bundle! Curated by an educator for educators, this all-in-one kit transforms your classroom into a living laboratory where students explore biology, ecology, and sustainability through hands-on discovery.
This bundle includes a premium mushroom grow kit along with a comprehensive, ready-to-teach digital resource toolkit.
What’s Inside the Bundle
📖 Visual Mushroom Grow Guide
Step-by-Step Multimedia Tutorials: High-quality photos and videos guide you from unboxing to your first harvest.
Pro Growing Tips: Easy troubleshooting secrets to ensure a robust, successful flush in any classroom environment.
Harvesting Visuals: Clear, visual indicators showing exactly when and how to harvest your gourmet mushrooms.
🎓 Ready-to-Teach Curriculum & Lesson Plans
Curriculum-Connected Unit Plans: Standards-aligned lessons designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing science and STEM units.
Inclusive & Engaging Design: Differentiated activities crafted to support all learning styles and abilities, keeping every student actively participating.
Interactive Student Tracking: Ready-to-print data templates for students to log daily growth, sketch observations, and track environmental variables.
🍳 Classroom & Family Kitchen Connections
Kid-Friendly Recipes: Delicious, simple recipes designed to celebrate your harvest and introduce students to healthy, sustainable eating.
From Lab to Table: Activities that connect agricultural science directly to nutritional literacy and life skills.
Coming soon!
High-yield food growing made effortless. Get the world's most water-efficient garden box paired with step-by-step masterclasses to guarantee your harvest thrives.
Whether you have a spacious backyard or a tight condo balcony, this exclusive partnership brings you the ultimate hybrid gardening system. By combining the field-tested hardware of The Growing Connection (https://www.thegrowingconnection.com/about-the-caja/) with day-by-day digital blueprints, you eliminate the guesswork and fast-track your path to food independence.
📦 Step 1: Your Physical Hardware (The Caja Box)
Advanced Sub-Irrigation: Features a massive 10L built-in water reservoir that continuously wicks moisture directly to the roots.
80% Less Water: Self-watering engineering keeps plants perfectly hydrated for up to a full week.
Zero Weeding: The included customized mulch cover completely locks out weeds and soil-borne pests.
Weatherproof & Safe: Built from food-grade, UV-stabilized, BPA-free recycled plastic rated for winter and summer extremes (-40°C to +40°C). [1, 2, 3]
📲 Step 2: Choose Your Digital Vegetable Guide (Instant Access)
🍅 The Juicy Tomato & Pepper Blueprint: Master vertical staking, pruning for maximum yield, and feeding intervals inside the Caja Sub-Irrigated Planter.
🥬 The Continuous Salad & Herb Library: Learn the "cut-and-come-again" technique to harvest fresh greens every single week without replanting.
🫛 The Compact Root & Vine Masterclass: Step-by-step video training for maximizing dense crops like bush beans, carrots, and patio cucumbers in tight spaces. [1, 2]
Coming Soon!
Fresh, nutrient-dense greens on your counter in just 7 days.
No green thumb? No backyard? No problem. This all-in-one kit gives you the premium physical supplies and step-by-step expert digital training to grow thriving, restaurant-quality microgreens right on your kitchen counter.
What is Included
📦 The Physical Gear (Shipped to Your Door)
Premium Grow Trays: Durable, reusable, and perfectly sized for windowsills or countertops.
Organic Seed Bundles: High-germination, non-GMO seeds (Includes Broccoli, Radish, and Spicy Mustard).
Pre-Measured Grow Media: Premium, mess-free soil discs that expand instantly with water.
📲 The Digital Toolkit (Instant Access)The 7-Day Microgreens Masterclass: Bite-sized video lessons covering planting to harvesting.
The "Thrive" Troubleshooting Guide: Instant answers from industry experts on lighting, watering, and mold prevention.
Harvest & Recipe Ebook: Chef-approved ideas to elevate your salads, sandwiches, and smoothies.
For Educators
Resilient food systems are never grown in isolation — rather self-sufficiency is nurtured through community.
Empower your students and bring garden education to your school!
Who We Are
In a fast-paced world, we create spaces to slow down, work with our hands, and reconnect with what nourishes us.
We believe in designing high quality garden education and food literacy resources in collaboration with qualified educators, farmers, and food & agriculture industry experts across Canada.
Inspiring Stories
After-School
Garden Coaching
What began as garden coaching for their mother quickly became an opportunity for two twin brothers to learn to grow their own food in their backyard. Before each garden coaching session, they would eagerly wait at the window! They created this dish with vegetables fresh from their garden.
Starting a School
Garden Club
A bright high school student established and led a School Garden Club. Over the course of one year, our garden coach supported the student with garden design, crop rotations, succession planting, harvesting techniques, and rainy day activities. They celebrated together when it became a permanent club in early 2026!
Classroom
Mushroom Pet
A Grade 4/5 classroom welcomed a new classroom pet, in the for of a blue oyster mushroom grow kit named “Sir Mushmore”! Students tracked mycelium growth, cooked the harvest and discovered that local food exists in cold winters. Parents shared that their children’s taste for mushrooms also changed at home!
Education Rooted in Collaboration
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Inclusive & Accessible
Universal Design for Learning (UDL), that acknowledges that everyone learns differently. All programming and resources are designed using the UDL educational framework to provide multiple ways for students to engage, learn, and be represented.
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High Quality & Vetted
All lesson plans and resources are developed by real humans (not Generative A.I.) and vetted by qualified educators critically reviewed from multiple provincial curriculums.
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Diverse Collaboration
Community partners from multiple Agri-food industries and farmers have been consulted to ensure our resources and programs are accurate and reflect current issues and solutions in their industries.
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Climate & Social Justice
Climate literacy is an empowering tool to help youth confidently stand up for their communities. The resources are backed by science through an anti-racist, decolonized, climate change perspective so youth can shift from climate anxious to understanding + action.
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Indigenous Perspectives
Indigenous Education is not an isolated section of our resources. Decolonized curriculum is woven throughout in collaboration with Indigenous educators. We provide learning opportunities about the specific Lands you call home from authentic voices.
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Montessori-Inspired
Dr. Maria Montessori’s work is a pedagogical approach to creating a prepared environment for the child to self-guide their work and take ownership of their own learning through inquiry and purposeful daily responsibilities.
About Us
Vision:
Garden and food literacy education in every classroom, organization, health care centre and home garden year-round — no matter the climate.
Mission:
Gather together and empower anyone to grow their own food with intention, deepen their connection to the Land, and be nourished by a resilient food system rooted in community.
Young Leaders in Agriculture & Food Systems
A program designed for the next generation of change-makers ready to turn ideas into impact.
This mentorship program combines food systems foundations, entrepreneurial skills, and leadership skills development.
We also offer individualized project coaching 1:1 with each participant.
Coming Fall of 2026!
Start Growing Today
Provide your email for a FREE resource of a selection of Fall crops to spark inspiration and help you start planning your vegetable garden.