Gardening with Kids
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Gardening can be a fun and great learning experience for children. Read about ways that you can help spark children's interest in gardening.
Learn about how gardening is beneficial for children and activities that children of different ages can do in the garden.
Gardening helps teens to live a healthier lifestyle. There are several benefits of gardening for teen's health. Gardening also teaches teens responsibility, build family relationships and encourages healthy eating habits.
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This video is about a young girl who has been been gardening since the age of 3 in her family garden. Her dad lets her help out where she can from mapping out garden beds to adding in compost and mulch and covering it with straw.
This video provides information on ways to help spark children’s interest in gardening such as learning about types of fruits and vegetables the children like and starting with kid friendly vegetables.
"A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brainpower in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water." - Jim Nollman, Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place, 1994