Kids Food Day

Kids in our Conejo Valley School District celebrated Food Day, October 24, by “the crunch heard ‘round the county”. At 11:15 kids in classrooms crunched on locally sourced organic carrots. Food Day focuses on food education to teach kids where their food comes from and to learn to cook meals. Health problems in America related…

School Nutrition and Cooking Classes

Learning to cook can be a life changing experience for kids. When kids prepare food they have grown in the garden, they understand how they are connected to what is alive on the planet. At schools where there is a school garden and cooking classes, academic teachers can use the garden and kitchen as a…

Kids Master Gardener

Kids can invite Master Gardeners to come help establish their school garden, a community garden plot, or their backyard garden with informative advice plus knowledge of local seeds and weather conditions. Master Gardeners are trained in various aspects of horticulture, from botany and soil science to entomology and pesticide safety. The program was created in…

Kids Seasonal Diet

Kids discover that weather and gardening go together. First, kids can discover their gardening zone as set forth by the United States Department of Agriculture. Next, kids find that different herb, fruit, and veggie plants grow better at certain times of year. There are cool season plants like cabbage and most leafy greens that grow…

Kids Community Garden Plots

Parents and teachers are on the band wagon for kids to experience the miracle of life by planting their own gardens. Las Flores Community Garden is expanding to feature a special area only for kid gardeners. Leveling, putting in water pipes, and fencing will take time, but community interest can start now. Building a raised…

Kids Kitchen Garden

Gardening is a great way of spending quality time with the family. Kids enjoy digging in the soil, watching the new sprouts grow, and eating fresh raspberries on the vine. Kids like to see the quick results of a fast growing salad garden they have planted. Gardening is great exercise for kids in the fresh…

Kids Garden Birdhouses

Kids can attract insect eating birds to their garden by making a comfortable home to make their nests. Wherever birds nest, they will busily hunt insects to feed their baby hatchlings. Pinecones rolled in peanut butter and birdseed will tantalize birds to visit and growing sunflowers in a sunny spot near a fence or wall…

Kids Mulching

Kids can add mulching to their organic vegetable garden to help keep down the weeds, to help soil hold on to its moisture, and to keep soil temperatures even. Mulching is covering the soil around the plants with a natural material, such as straw, wood chips, sawdust, and shredded leaves. Kids can use special tree…

Kids Weight Loss

Kids needing to lose weight can start by eating simple, healthy food made from scratch. Fresh organic fruit, scrubbed clean, can be eaten with their nutrient rich skins to help flush out the toxins from the processed foods that is stored in fat cells. Steamed fresh organic veggies can be added to organic whole wheat…

Kid’s Garden Journal

Kids can make a journal of their garden activities, observations, and feelings. Journals are a place for personal reflections or focusing kid’s interests. Drawings, poetry, stories, and other projects can all be done in the journal. Keeping a journal is a great way for kids to let go of the day’s stress. It can be…