"Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden." - Robert Brault
Gardening With Children
"Gardening with children is a great way to teach about life. As I began to write this article, I asked my then-12 year old daughter, Briana, what she has learned from our family gardening. She said, “Cooperation, teamwork, being responsible, that we don’t have to eat poisoned food (we are organic) and about taking care of the earth through composting and recycling.” WOW! Quite a list, I am impressed. I would also add sanity, prosperity and understanding the cycles of life and death. Here is how we all have learned these basic values through gardening together:" [read more]
Reading Corner
Title: Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow: A Compost Story​
By: Linda Glaser​
Ages: 6 and up
What can you do to help the environment? Make less garbage. How can you do that? Compost! Composting is an easy way to turn food scraps and yard waste into rich, useful soil. Follow one family through the year as they tend to the compost bin in their backyard and use the newly created soil in their garden. - Publishers
By: Linda Glaser​
Ages: 6 and up
What can you do to help the environment? Make less garbage. How can you do that? Compost! Composting is an easy way to turn food scraps and yard waste into rich, useful soil. Follow one family through the year as they tend to the compost bin in their backyard and use the newly created soil in their garden. - Publishers
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Be the Change
Have you ever tried 'naming' a seed that you've sown? It would be super cool if each one of the kids and the adults of the house could plant one seed of their choice and give them a name, for eg: Red Riding Tomato or Ms. Pea Green and so on. Once this special bond is associated with the saplings, nurturing them won't feel like an additional chore to do. Coz now, it's family :)
