Kids make Seed Tapes

Make tiny seed planting easier with this simple tool. Tiny seeds, like lettuce or carrots, can be evenly spaced on biodegradable paper, like toilet paper. These seed tapes can be prepared in advance and stored for when the season and soil are ready for planting. Then just roll out the seeds on the soil for…

Kid Chef Baked Organic Zucchini Fries

Kids love zucchini fries! Baking zucchinis fresh from the organic veggie garden is even more healthy and delicious. Kids can line a baking pan with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 425°.  The zucchini plant is attractive, fast growing, and prolific, producing fruit in 40 to 50 days, rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants…

Kid Chef Spring Green Soup

Kid Chef Spring Green Soup is a nutritional powerhouse. Eat your greens! Greens are high in immune support, antioxidants, fiber, iron, calcium, heart healthy nutrients, and rich in vitamins A, B, C, and K! Leafy greens, such as spinach, Swiss Chard, Beet greens, pak choy, mustard, collard greens, and kale, growing in organic raised bed…

Kids set the Table

Modern hectic lifestyle has eroded family meal traditions. Table manners can help create that special environment for parents and kids to show gratitude and respect for the meal. How we experience food in our homes and environment, changes our bodies and our metabolic process. When kids grow an organic backyard veggie garden, they are excited…

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…

Kids grow Chives

Chives are easy for kids to grow and are perennial and drought tolerant. Sow seeds in winter or early spring. Chives grow in tight clumps of long thin grasslike leaves that taste like mild, sweet onions. Chives are often grown with tomatoes, as in the picture above, as they repel Japanese beetles and aid in…

Kids Cooking Camps

Summertime offers lots of different camps for kids, including camps that teach kids how to cook. Kids can sign up for a fun cooking class and learn basic skills, like following a recipe and using kitchen equipment safely. Some camps are held in gardens or farms, like the one in the picture above at Plumcot…

Kids Healthy Snacks

When kids eat small snacks between their main meals, they get a steady supply of energy to supply their minds and bodies all day. However, packaged processed snacks contain loads of sugar, salt, fat, and chemicals. Instead kids can grow organic nutritious snacks right in their backyard by planting fruit trees, berry bushes, and an…

Kids Native Milkweed

Found throughout much of North America, common native milkweed is the larval food source for the monarch butterfly. Milkweed’s silky filaments were once used as stuffing for pillows, mattresses, and life preservers. Farmers stopped growing milkweed on a commercial scale and began using massive amount of pesticides and monarch butterfly numbers fell. Milkweed silk may…

Kids cook with Cauliflower

Cauliflower is an annual cool weather veggie in the cabbage family that kids can grow in their organic raised bed garden. Cauliflower is low in calories but filling as it is high in fiber, with abundant health benefits in its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, vitamin C, and potassium. When the cauliflower head is 6 –…