The poor life. Imagine watching the clock as you speak to a customer over the phone at your $9 an hour job on a Wednesday afternoon. Job number one of three. You try to rush the customer off of the phone because it is 3:07 pm and your shift was over at 3:00 pm. The … Continue reading The Cost of Being Poor
Roam The Planet
Parenting Styles
There are four primary types of traditional parenting styles. The styles are based on how supportive and how demanding you are regarding your children. Out of those, keep in mind that psychology says that AUTHORITATIVE parenting is the style that produces the healthiest children. Photo by August de Richelieu; Conscious Black Parents Supportiveness, or parental … Continue reading Parenting Styles
Food Deserts
As described by the Food Empowerment Project, food deserts are “described as geographic areas where residents’ access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or nonexistent due to the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance.” Convenience in this context refers to within one mile of ones home. As … Continue reading Food Deserts
Why Gardening Matters
Research has shown time and time again how important it is for us to make sure we get outside time daily. It’s good for both our bodies and our minds. The question is, however, what should we even be doing while we’re outside ?! One suggestion is GARDENING ! You Should Be Gardening I got … Continue reading Why Gardening Matters
Our Community Garden
Due to operational changes at the Dakota Street Center, that will no longer be the home for our community garden in 2021. We're so happy that we were able to share the community garden with them for a couple months in 2020 so that we have a better idea of what to expect. Consider it … Continue reading Our Community Garden
How To Make Pizza From Scratch
One part of our gardening program is teaching children how to cook ! We want our students to be able to make things with the food they grow. In the indoor gardening kits and the physical garden alike we'll be growing food that goes great on... PIZZA ! Basil, bell peppers, tomatoes, rosemary and more … Continue reading How To Make Pizza From Scratch
What’s Been Going On
We're so excited to announce that we finally have our first gardening project !! We've been working so hard to find an opportunity to open a community garden in West Dayton. For about a year and a half now we hadn't found anything. As many of you know, at Mindy's Planets inception, there was also … Continue reading What’s Been Going On