School Garden Education
Let’s Grow the Next Generation of Gardeners!
Inspiring students to learn through hands-on, curriculum-connected gardening all across Canada.
Ready to dig in? Explore our year-round workshop options below:
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.
Featured Product
Engage students with a living science project + tasty harvests. No garden space required!
Bring the hidden world of fungi to life in your classroom with a hands-on workshop where students explore how mushrooms grow, decompose, and nourish our planet, all while cultivating their own crop in just two weeks. A mushroom educator visits to guide setup, care, and harvest, connecting lessons on ecosystems, and food literacy. All materials are provided, and no gardening experience is needed.
Curious about our mushroom workshops? 🍄
Classroom Gardening Workshop
Bring your classroom to life by welcoming an experienced grower AND qualified educator to help you design, build, and maintain a vegetable garden.
COMING SOON
Invite a farmer into your classroom in 2026!
MEET JESSICA
Your Garden Educator
Jess is a qualified Educator with a B.Ed from UBC, with a pedagogy that blends Indigenous Education, the Montessori Method and the 10 Forest School Principles. She is an experienced Garden Coach passionate about people and plants. She has 11 years of professional growing expertise in: Urban Garden Design & Installation, Hydroponics, Market Gardening, and Mushroom Cultivation.
Outside of Gather Gardeners, teaching and farming, she dedicates her time advocating and informing policy-change on the Canadian Agricultural Youth Council.