Kids Spring Herb Garden

Springtime is the perfect time for kids to plant their first garden. An herb garden is a good choice, as herbs are easy to grow, most being hardy perennials, and once established will keep growing year after year. Herbs will grow in pots, window boxes, or mixed into a raised bed veggie garden. Herbs help…

Kids in the Community Garden

Kids blossom in the Community Garden, where various garden projects help kids to learn where their food comes from and to develop healthy eating habits. Community Gardens are springing up across the country, where kids can experience the miracle of life by growing their own delicious organic food. In the picture above, garden neighbors, Ann…

Kids Plant Salsa, Salad, and Pickles

Planting seeds in the spring is exciting! Kids can create a speciality garden in a raised bed filled with rich organic soil and compost. Kids can choose their favorite recipes, plant the ingredients, and harvest salsa, salad, or pickles. Kids can use organic heirloom seeds for flavor and diversity. As soon as nights stay above…

Kids grow Perennial Veggies

Instead of growing veggies in a patch of straight rows of crops, kids can plant a variety of interesting perennial edibles in a relaxed design in the landscape. To grow perennial veggies, kids can check plant labels at the nursery to discover their winter hardiness, as it is important to get the right variety for…

Kids Commune with Nature

Kids can discover a safe and happy place in their organic food garden by creating a comfortable place to sit and experience the wonders of nature, write in a journal, or draw a picture, away from addictive electronics. In their happy place, kids can observe the sun, wind, and rain patterns in the oxygen rich…

Kids Garden Sustainability

Kids can grow an abundant organic regenerative raised bed garden without chemical fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides and help turn around the the crisis in the world’s soil health, fresh water availability, air quality, and human health. Living organic soil is the womb of nature and feeding it pure water, lots of compost, and red wriggler…

Kids grow Container Citrus Trees

For thousands of years around the world, people have been growing citrus trees in clay pots and moving them to protected areas in the winter. Because citrus trees are attractive evergreen trees that produce masses of highly fragrant flowers that perfume the air, these potted trees have decorated palaces as well as patios and make…

Kids Gardens Prepare for Emergencies

Kids can grow an organic veggie garden in their backyard and provide their family with a sustainable city living plan. Kids can plant potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, garlic, and cabbage in raised beds that will store well in cellars for fresh food in case the power goes out during weather disasters. Kids can also grow…

Kids Permaculture Food Forest

Unlike most backyard veggie gardens, a food forest is planted once and left to grow with little care. Kids can design their food forest by choosing certain local organic heirloom root vegetables, fruit trees, salad greens, herbs, native flowers, perennials, and berries that will grow year after year without replanting. Local permaculture gardeners can recommend…

Kids grow Graffiti Cauliflower

When kids grow veggies in their backyard, they can choose unusual varieties and help preserve heirloom seeds. Cauliflower comes in many colors: snowy white, orange, green, and purple. Graffiti cauliflower is a variety of deep purple cauliflower that turns mauve after cooking. It has a mild taste with a nutty, slightly sweet flavor. It looks…