Tag: Gardening with Children from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Children and Gardening, Cooking with Kids
Teach Your Children Well: A Gardener’s Thoughts on Earth Day…
Holding Earth in Her Hands – Photo â“’ Tim Geiss As gardeners, most of us consider ourselves environmentally minded, and for us, every day is Earth Day. But, it’s important to remember that gardening —in and of itself— Â is an unnatural act. When we work the soil and sow seed, fertilize and water, thin plants […]
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Annual Flowers, annuals, Books, Children and Gardening, Cutting Garden, Seeds, Vegetable Gardening
Sowing the Seeds of the Future: Starting Early, In More Ways Than One…
Dharma’s Sunflower Seeds, Photograph © Tim Geiss Is it just me, or does it seem like there are babies everywhere right now? While visiting my sister last week, we stopped in at her local bakery for a quick lunch and the place was just packed with expectant mothers, infants, toddlers and little children. Everywhere I […]
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Books, Children and Gardening, Gardening Inspiration, Gifts for Gardeners, Indoor Gardening, Plant Propagation, Seed Kits, Seeds
Sowing the Seeds of a Gardening Future: Great Holiday Gift Books to Nurture the Little Green Thumbs in Your Life…
Late this fall, I was helping my client and friend Leah design and install a perennial garden at her home, (if you read this blog regularly you will recall that Leah loaned me a copy of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, by Michael Pollan, turning me on to the author’s […]
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