About | Growing Up Organic

À propos

Grandir BIO est un programme éducatif destiné aux enfants et aux jeunes et présenté par Cultivons Biologique dans la ville d’Ottawa.

Grandir BIO travaille en partenariat avec les écoles pour appuyer la mise en œuvre de jardins scolaires servant de base d’apprentissage par l’expérience, à tous les niveaux. Nous fournissons un soutien constant aux éducateurs et fournissons les outils essentiels pour lancer ces initiatives avec confiance. Nos ateliers, présentés sur place dans les jardins scolaires et aussi disponibles en ligne, fournissent aux enseignants une base pour intégrer une connaissance alimentaire pratique à leur pédagogie.

En mettant l'accent sur l'éducation,

nous souhaitons encourager une génération d’enfants et de jeunes à avoir de saines habitudes alimentaires,

des compétences alimentaires accrues et une compréhension des problèmes environnementaux locaux et globaux.

Nous faisons aussi partie du réseau Alimentation Scolaire Ottawa qui est composé d’organismes à but non lucratif et de projets communautaires travaillant à mettre en avant l’alimentation saine dans les écoles à l’échelle de la ville.

Mission & Vision

Au sujet de CBC

Cultivons Biologique Canada conçoit un système agricole et alimentaire résiliant et régénérateur partout au Canada. L’association CBC offre de la pédagogie, du plaidoyer et du leadership pour aider à bâtir un système agricole qui permet aux agriculteurs et aux consommateurs d’accroitre leur autonomie, qui permet d’améliorer la santé de la population, de développer des communautés et d’atténuer le changement climatique tout en mettant en avant la souveraineté alimentaire.

À propos de CBC/CBC OSO

Dans le courant des 30 dernières années, l’association CBC Ottawa, aujourd’hui appelée l’association CBC Ottawa - St. Laurent - Outaouais (CBC OSO), a offert des programmes et des services aux fermiers, aux jardiniers, aux éducateurs et à ceux qui se soucient de l’alimentation saine et des environnements sains.

L’équipe

Nathalie Drummond

Gestionnaire de Programme Grandir Bio

Nathalie joined COG, as the GUO program manager in February 2022. She has a keen interest in hands-on learning and food sovereignty. Nathalie started her career working with animals but soon came to realize that her true passion is the environment and our responsibility towards it. With a background in environmental studies and biology she ran her own small scale CSA farm, C’est La Vie Farm in Ottawa. After having 2 children of her own she has become more aware of the disconnect that can sometimes happen between children and our food system. Nathalie is excited to be a part of the Growing Up Organic team, contributing to helping our next generation getting their hands dirty and enjoying it too, all the while learning more about human and planet health along the way!

Marie Josee Laviolette

ANIMATEUR D'ATELIER DE GRANDIR BIO

Marie-Josée is first off a great enthusiast of delicious tasting local foods. Throughout her years as an amateur food and herb grower, she has been most interested in vermicomposting and its black gold (worm poop!); not surprisingly, she believes in the power of brewing compost tea for the garden! Marie-Josée has worked on organic farms in the USA, Canada and in Taiwan. Recently, she has been very inspired by the rad diversity of grass-root projects in the Ottawa region! She is your benevolent workshop facilitator for Spring 2022.

Son arbre préféré : L’érable

Favourite Vegetable: Celery Root

Favourite Wild Flower: Black-Eyed Susan

Favourite Bird: Chickadee

Favourite fruit: Dried Apricot

Favourite mushroom: Portabello

Rachel Murphy

COORDINATEUR DES BÉNÉVOLES DE GRANDIR BIO

Rachel est actuellement directrice des bénévoles à Grandir Bio pendant qu’elle poursuit son baccalauréat en éducation à l’Université de Trent. Elle est impassionnée du jardinage urbain et a hâte d’intégrer l’apprentissage environnementale expérimentale dans ses futures classes. Rachel croît fermement en la justice alimentaire et que tous enfants devraient avoir accès aux aliments locaux nutritives. Rachel partage l’engagement de Grandir Bio de responsabiliser les apprenants à prendre soin de la terre et des systèmes alimentaires locaux par le jardinage et l’intendance. En ses temps libre, vous pourriez trouver Rachel dans une forêt à explorer, nager et faire de la randonnée dans la nature à proximité.

L'arbre préféré: Sycomore

Le légume préféré: Courges d'hiver 'Délicata'

La fleur sauvage préférée: Lys a la truite

L'oiseau préféré: Héron bleu

Le fruit préféré: Le pêcher 'Redhaven'

Le champignon préféré: Chanterelles

Brett Weddle

GROWING UP WORKSHOP Facilitator

Brett is an organic farmer and nature educator. He is passionate about sharing his love of nature through the lens of food and agriculture, and toward that goal founded Cadence Ecological Farm at Just Food Community Farm. Cadence employs older teens and young adults through the Youth Skills Program, partnering with Just Food and the Youth Services Bureau. Also on site, he is a mentor with Earth Path Nature School. He is excited to wear another hat as a facilitator with GUO!

Favourite Tree: Anything climable

Favourite Vegetable: Garlic

Favourite Wild Flower: Red clover

Favourite Bird: Crow Heron

Favourite fruit: Mango

Favourite mushroom: Mycorrhizal fungi

Jennifer Neate

GROWING UP WORKSHOP Facilitator

Jennifer is a dynamic, experiential educator and Ontario certified teacher with a passion for restoring relationships between human and other-than-human beings. As the founder of Spirit Walkers, she has been providing nature-connection programs for children and youth for more than ten years. She has also worked as an outdoor education instructor and occasional teacher for the Ottawa Carleton District School Board, and has taught in South Africa and Sierra Leone both in the classroom and outdoors. Jennifer’s love of plants began in her grandfather’s vegetable garden as a child. She is an enthusiastic gardener and enjoys making her own herbal tinctures, healing salves and fermented vegetables.

With a Bachelor’s degree in Education specializing in Outdoor and Experiential Education and an Honours Degree in Science with a major in Ecology, Jennifer is excited to be a part of the GUO team to empower children and youth with the skills and knowledge to help grow sustainable local food systems.

Favourite Tree: White pine

Favourite Vegetable: Cauliflower

Favourite Wild Flower: Dutchman’s Breeches

Favourite Bird: Common Loon

Favourite fruit: Empire Apple

Favourite mushroom: Chanterelle

Jessie Zimmerling

GROWING UP WORKSHOP Facilitator

Jessie is a horticulturalist with a great love for purple vegetables! She began gardening with her grandparents, learning historical methods of growing flowers and vegetables, and studied horticulture at Algonquin College. Always full of creativity, she enjoys garden design, sewing, and fostering cats in her free time.

Favourite Tree: Apple tree

Favourite Vegetable: purple sugar snap peas

Favourite Wild Flower: mallow

Favourite Bird: chickadee

Favourite fruit: blueberries

Favourite mushroom: Inky Cap

Bethany Hamilton

GROWING UP WORKSHOP Facilitator

Bethany is really passionate about combining her love of farming with her background of teaching in a way that is accessible and understandable to those around her. She runs a mini farm with two cats, two goats, two pigs, 30 chickens, a 2,400 square foot vegetable and herb garden, and an ever-developing food forest. She’s constantly trying to learn from the Land, from those who have more experience, and from the families who drop by to meet her animals or play in the garden. She really wants to share her knowledge and experience with folks of all ages in her community in order to help them make better food choices, understand where their food comes from, and learn to grow and raise their own food where they can. When she’s not farming, she’s usually fixing or improving fences, structures or systems on the farm, or doing renovations on her 19th century farmhouse.

In her spare time, she loves cuddling with her dogs, reading a good book, birdwatching, singing, or spending time with her own family or one of her eight siblings.

FAVOURITE TREE: Maple

FAVOURITE VEGETABLE: Tomato

FAVOURITE WILD FLOWER: Phlox

FAVOURITE BIRD: Any kind of Hawk

FAVOURITE FRUIT: A handpicked, warm-from-the-sun Ontario strawberry in June.

FAVOURITE MUSHROOM: The ones that sprout spontaneously in my grass!

Anya Sylenko

GROWING UP WORKSHOP Facilitator

Anya is a herbalist, gardener and naturalist from Ukraine. They are passionate about land-based experiential education, whether it is in the vegetable garden or following a trail of fox tracks. Anya holds a Bachelor’s in Environment and Health studies, a Family Herbalist diploma from the Vermont Center of Integrative Herbalism, and has studied wilderness skills at Coyote Programs. With an 8-year background in community urban agriculture with youth and adults of all ages, Anya is delighted to be joining GUO to continue the work of empowering youth to grow their own food.

FAVOURITE TREE: paper birch

FAVOURITE VEGETABLE: kale

FAVOURITE WILD FLOWER: yarrow

FAVOURITE BIRD: junco

FAVOURITE FRUIT: raspberry

FAVOURITE MUSHROOM: fly agaric

Notre comité consultatif

Notre comité consultatif regroupe des enseignants et des travailleurs des services communautaires de la région d’Ottawa qui se soucient de la littératie alimentaire et qui veulent garantir la disponibilité de l’offre de ce type alternatif d’enseignement/d’apprentissage pour les générations futures.