Are you looking for a fun way to get your kids outside? Do you want to engage them with nature? Teach them how to love fresh vegetables? Beanstalk Seeds is a new seed company specializing in seeds for children’s gardening! With exciting seeds, including those in our Plant a Rainbow kit, and resources such as […]
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Ever hear the dictum, Eat Your Colors? The reasoning is that colorful fruits and vegetables contain various nutrients that are vital for good health. According to Wellness Today: Green foods contain chlorophyll; Yellow foods are rich in Vitamin C; Orange foods are high in beta-carotene; Red foods are rich in the phytonutrients lycopene and anthocyanin; […]
If you want to attract something like this, a swallowtail butterfly, your going to have to put up with caterpillars, which are swallowtails in the larva stage. Caterpillars can do enormous damage to a vegetable garden. They are voracious eaters. In this photo the host plant is a 3 foot fennel bush. This particular specie […]
Diggin It! is a Middle School Nutrition and Garden Curriculum created by Nutritionist & Certified Health Coach, Jill Parsh. This 100+ page pdf is available as a free download by simply clicking the link above. As owner of Food for Health, LLC Jill works with kids and families (one-on-one and in groups) to teach them how […]
Job Opening: Director Position, Seeds to Plate Program at Mark Twain Middle School, Los Angeles, CA About Us The Seeds to Plate Program aims to create and maintain a school garden that is integrated into the academic environment, promote a healthy food culture, nurture physical and mental well-being, and provide hands-on gardening and eating experiences for […]
By Ben Eichorn of GrowYourLunch.com (Reprinted with permission) School lunch continues to be a hot topic these days. At the end of September, The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was up for re-authorization and voting was postponed until December 2015. For now, the 5-year-old standards for increasing fruit, vegetable and whole grain consumption and reducing […]