Tag: gardening with children

Life lessons from Gardening

May 9, 2023

May is here, and it feels like finally, finally, new life is here. Winter felt long and cold this year, and spring slow to get off the ground. In the past couple of weeks, new life has truly begun emerging, those first tiny specks of green that poked their heads through the soil are at...

COLLABORATIVE, EVERYDAY LIFE, HOME

A little garden planning and inspiraiton

February 13, 2017

It might still be freezing cold and wet, but I’m beginning to get an urge to be able to get back out in my garden. I did sneak in a quick twenty minute tidy-up on Saturday {before my fingers turned to ice!}, with all the craziness of the end of last year, I didn’t really...

COLLABORATIVE, FAMILY

4 tips for getting kids to grow their own

August 24, 2016

When Kiki was a baby we had an allotment for a year or so. Having grown up with parents who grew a lot of our own fruit and veg, it was great to be able to do the same again and the kids loved seeing the whole cycle from seed to plant to food on...