Clients and Projects
People attending workshops range widely in their backgrounds, interests and experience. Some are novice gardeners, some are experienced or working in the field. About 30% of workshop goers have gardened for 5+ years and a similar number have no experience. Work trades and scholarships are offered to include as many people as possible.
Garden Jane and Jane Hayes have contributed to the following organizations and projects:
Evergreen, a national non-profit environmental organization, projects and consulting including:
Food Garden Associate for Toronto schools
Woburn Junior Public School - lesson plans & garden development
Evergreen's discussion forum - food garden tips
Hellmann's Projects - program consultation and on-line garden expert
Food garden advice e-mail and hotline service
Brickworks - Greenbelt 100 mile café and community workshops
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| Fun at Spring Garden Workshop |
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Greenest City, a non-profit, community-based environmental organization. Their projects embrace community diversity and engage people in finding locally appropriate solutions to global environmental problems.
Workshops for gardeners at Parkdale H.O.P.E Community Garden
Stonegate Community Health Centre, a registered charity, community-based organization that provides comprehensive health and social services to residents living in South-East Etobicoke. Garden Jane held two workshops for Stonegate's community gardeners in 2007.
Cirque D'irt, a down-to-earth circus event that brings people together to enjoy music, performance, healthy food, earth lessons and circus spirit. Performers and educators available for public and private spaces, for small and large audiences, mostly in Ontario, Canada.
More new clients in 2008... (profiles coming soon)
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art; OISE's Toronto Community Development Institute; Phoenix Daycare; Sunshine Centre for Seniors; the Scarborough Horticulture Society; Windfall Ecology Festival; York University; University of Toronto.
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| H.O.P.E. workshop in Parkdale |
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Agency Clients
Garden Jane’s agency clients are typically in positions of social leadership, running programs in municipal, non-profit, educational and health settings. You are health and ecologically aware and work to improve the life of your clients, students and families with activities that are healthy, mood enhancing and ecologically beneficial.
Garden Jane has experience gardening with and programming for children, youth, parents and toddlers, and community. We’ve worked with multicultural groups, new Canadians, as well as with people who are alter-abled, blind, deaf, or have ESL, ADHT and other special needs. |
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