SPEC School Gardens Program

The Society Promoting Environmental Conservation first started the School Gardens Program through volunteers in 2008.  The goal of the program is to connect children to their food, to each other, to nature and to their community.  We currently partner with 13 schools across Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to help build and maintain school food gardens and to deliver school garden education.   We also support schools in obtaining funding to further their garden and food programs.

School children learn about food security and how to grow their own organic fruits and veggies, while teachers learn to incorporate fun and thought provoking agricultural topics into their curriculum. Discussing food issues has proven to be a powerful way to engage children in various science, social studies, and health and nutrition topics already written into the BC school curriculum.