Kids Find Health in the Garden

Everything is connected, and the world reflects the consequences of our choices! How about planting an organic edible garden where you live today? Now is the time to get back in touch with Nature! Gardening boost our immune systems in several ways. Here’s what this means to you: you get low-impacted physical exercise, better sleep,…

Kids like Ginger

Ginger is a natural remedy for many ailments and has been proven even more effective for upset stomach, heartburn, dizziness, and pain relief than over the counter medicines. Ginger’s tart, zesty, spicy flavor is a welcome addition to cookies, roasted veggies, and noodles. Kids love crystalized ginger or ginger ale as a treatment for nausea….

Kids Eat Plants

When kids plant an organic raised bed veggie garden in their backyard or community garden, they want to eat what they have grown…often while standing in the garden. Many kids see animals as soulful, sensitive, aware beings with individual personalities and don’t want to be responsible for their suffering and death. These kids don’t want…

Kids Wizard Party

October is the perfect time for a Wizard Party! Kids can start making invitations to hand to their friends a couple of weeks before their party to give everyone time to create a wizard robe, wand, or hat. Kids can invent a Magic Treasure Hunt with Bobbing for Apples, Guessing the Food, and Pumpkin Painting…

Teens Choose Water

Teens have been addicted to the sugar in soda and junk food with vending machines in their schools and parks, and oversized drinks at fast food places. These vending machines have been removed from some school campuses, parks, and playgrounds across the country, as pediatricians say just switching water for soda is a major health…

Kids Health Secret

Fresh organic veggies and fruit are medicine that can prevent, eliminate, and reverse disease without pharmaceutical medication and its many side effects. Growing fruits, herbs, and veggies in raised bed gardens, in pots on the patio, or in hanging planters excites kids to prepare and eat them.  Kids can also go to the Farmers Market…

Teen Vegan Health Pitfalls

Many teens today decide to go vegan to stop the suffering of animals, to heal from a disease, or in response to climate change. Because 75% of all agricultural land around the world is used for livestock production, cutting global meat consumption in half would free the farmland to grow fruits and veggies for people…

Kids Sleepy Time Foods

Calming foods can promote the restful sleep kids need for good health and wellbeing. Kids can eat foods at night with natural sources of melatonin, a hormone that encourages sleep, and tryptophan, an essential amino acid that converts to melatonin to help the body relax. Melatonin is responsible for regulating the circadian rhythms, which influence…

Kids Fiber-Rich Foods

Kids that eat a high fiber diet are less likely to be overweight, have diabetes, stomach cancer, or heart disease. Fiber is a group of carbohydrates that comes from plants which are not broken down and used by the human digestive tract. Fiber fills the stomach and helps push food through the digestive system.  There…

Kids Cold and Flu Remedies

At school, kids catch colds and flu easily. Many parents give their kids a vitamin C supplement to build their immunity. Nutritional deficiency, stress, and too much sugar are the most common causes of depressed immunity. Kids can eat lots of organic fruits and vegetables, which are nutrient dense, jam packed with vitamins, minerals, protein,…