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Tag: gardening with children
Do You Think This Could Become as Big as Baseball?
Nine Similarities Between Family Gardening and the National Pastime. Our local baseball team uses our school lot for game parking. So, on early evenings before a home game, fans toting lawn chairs stride determinedly down our long driveway toward our community field of dreams. At the same time, parents and kids arriving at school to garden together step out of their…
Share if You Think Every School Should Have a Year-Round Organic Gardening Program!
a parable about the common core and the empty flower pots.
If we focus only on the seeds that come up in the pot, or the lessons that are taught for a test, so little is gained and so much is lost. Our children need teachers who are allowed to honor and support whatever grows
Toddlers Blooming in the Garden Revisited
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 gardening teacher, chances are your…
Growing Children 