Kids Plant a Victory Garden

Gardens are magical places to keep grounded in these challenging times. When kids grow an organic veggie garden, they want to eat what they grow.  Now is the time to plant a Victory Garden filled with fruits, veggies, herbs, and berries! Being in your organic raised bed veggie garden is a solace for the soul!…

Kids Organic Gardening

Kids can awaken their neighborhood to the need to act in the current environmental emergency by using organic gardening techniques and taking simple steps at home. Planting eco-friendly native plants and fruit trees instead of a lawn in the front yard and using a drip irrigation system, saves water and attracts pollinators. Refraining from the…

Kids Organic Vertical Garden

Kids can create an organic fruit and veggie garden in a small space by using cages, towers, stakes, spiral supports, trellises, and ladders that can be found in all sorts of shapes and sizes. These vertical supports can double the growing space and make the best use of the available sunlight. Many veggies have a…

Kids Compost

Composting is the organic method to create healthy soil by increasing the organic content of the soil. Compost improves the soil’s texture, drainage, and fertility. Compost provides nutrients, moisture, and habitat for a large range of beneficial life forms, such as bacteria, fungi, insects, and worms that help create rich organic soil. Compost is food…

Kids No Dig Gardening

For centuries, gardeners have been digging up their garden soil, because they were taught that cultivation aerates the soil, incorporates organic matter, and brings pests to the surface. However, tilling the soil destroys the microorganisms and mycorrhizae in the soil that break down the organic matter naturally. Double digging or tilling also damages the soil…

Kids Revitalize the Soil

Springtime is the perfect time for kids to revitalize the soil in their raised bed gardens. The beauty of container gardening is filling the container with rich organic soil from the garden center or local soil company, even if the dirt beneath it is poor or the area is small. Then kids can create their…

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 and Fall Leaves

Fall foliage in brilliant yellow, orange, and red appear as the cool nights and shorter days of October trigger the photosynthesis to shut down, toning down the green in the leaves and allowing other colors to emerge. Kids love to jump and play in the colorful leaves that cover the ground. When the leaves fall…

Kids Organic Urban Garden

Kids can grow food anywhere – even in small urban spaces! Organic container food gardening can be on the patio, the balcony, the alley, the roof, a window box, or at the community garden. Kids can build an organic veggie garden in a Garden Tower Project with 50 plants in four square feet, like in…

Kids Regenerative Gardening

Families can restore their backyards, invigorating the soil and existing plants by designing an area to hold the water in the soil, grouping plant communities together, and creating a harmonious relationship with the natural environment. The idea is to enhance biological activity and mimic nature by copying what already works and be as self-sufficient as…