Composting is using decomposed organic material like leaves, loose grass and produce scraps. Cardboard can be included too ! It provides a lot of important nutrients for plant growth and is often used as fertilizer. Compost improves the soil for your plants because the soil can easily hold the correct amount of moisture, nutrients and air with it. Photo … Continue reading Composting
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Transplanting Outside
A lot of love indoor plants but would really prefer to be outside with our babies. Winter months don't make that possible. One option you have is to take your indoor plants and transplant them outside. When transplanting, however, there are a few things to keep in mind ! Transplanting Compatibility Most potted plants will … Continue reading Transplanting Outside
4 Amazing Indoor Gardening Tips
In the winter months most of us have our outside gardens closed down and begin to focus on indoor gardening ! So this month we'll be introducing our Indoor Gardening Kit and we have 4 awesome tips on how to care for your plant babies ! Photo by Huy Phan Indoor Garden Care Not every … Continue reading 4 Amazing Indoor Gardening Tips
Gardening and Child Development
Gardening helps younger children with their development and provides them with the skills needed to navigate the world efficiently. Gardening helps the kiddos practice locomotor, management, and object control skills as they haul materials back and forth to put the garden together and to water it. They also learn balance and hand-eye coordination. Fine motor … Continue reading Gardening and Child Development
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 ! It's also one of our personal … Continue reading Why Gardening Matters
Life Lessons In Gardening
We've talked about the different skills children can pick up in the garden. There are some great overall life lessons children can learn when gardening as well. We’ve learned lessons about food, patience, and commitment, among other things. Photo by VisionPic .net on Pexels.com Lessons In Patience Working in the garden teaches children a great … Continue reading Life Lessons In Gardening
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