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Toddlers Blooming in the Garden Revisited
Originally posted on Growing Children:
The frozen earth is a fertile zone for the gardener’s active mind. Seed catalogs, plot plans, old planting records and books about organic pest control and landscape design are the tools of dreamers who see beyond the white blanket hiding last year’s garden stubble and the remaining leeks. If you are a parent or a…
The Pilgrims Were Not Present at the First Thanksgiving in America! A Story to Share With Your Children
A Community That Gardens Together
Ten Tips for Parents and Teachers About Healing Stories That Help Kids Cope
Digging through the trash barrel, item by item by porch light, searching for the missing leg, I realized that a miserable, crying child can motivate a parent to do almost anything. A leg had had broken off my daughter Nora’s little figurine, a toy policeman carried from a foreign land by a big brother for the little sister who was…
School Sunhouse Now on Twitter
here So many of our readers at Growing Children found us through this post about growing food year round in a School Sunhouse. We are now sharing a diary of our daily work over on Twitter. Please follow us at School Sunhouse to learn how children can grow organic food year round in unheated sunhouses. For schools in cool or cold…
Please Don’t Say You Allow Your Child to Take Risks
Have you noticed that many parenting blogs have embraced the mission of encouraging parents to let their children take more risks? I once lived in a culture where trusted, adventurous, children were commonplace. This was the United States in the 1950’s. Here, as a child, I climbed tall trees, sailed across the bay with my younger brothers and traipsed through…
The Pilgrims Were Not Present at the First Thanksgiving in America! A Story to Share With Your Children
Now In Japanese!
A Japanese website is now sharing information about our year-round gardening program at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod. They were kind to ask permission to write about our program in Japanese here: tabi-labo 授業に「ガーデニング」を取り入れた米小学校。有機野菜を生徒全員で！ In addition, other websites have taken our information and shared it widely, so that now the photo of children working in our hoop house has become…
Thank you for being part of 280,000 plus shares and One Million Likes on Facebook!
This post about year round gardening programs for schools reached more than 280,000 shares and one million likes on Facebook. If you were part of making this go viral, thank you for sharing! https://childrengrowing.com/2015/05/11/share-if-you-think-every-school-should-have-a-year-round-gardening-program/ My hope in sharing our experience is to offer encouragement to those individuals of initiative who may find inspiration in our year round methods for cold/cool…
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