How Community Gardens Benefit Kids in Single Parent Households Around 17% of children in Canada belong to lone-parent families. The proportion tends to grow with lower income households and those challenged by systemic discrimination. For instance, more than...
How Gardens Help Kids (besides feeding them) The biggest benefit of gardening for Canada’s children is rooted in nutrition. Fruits and vegetables grown in backyards, community/school gardens, and urban farms feed the young masses with healthy antioxidants,...
How to Keep Kids Interested in Gardening Through the Winter It’s about that time of the year again, as the earth’s axis points away from the sun to bring winter weather across Canada. This can present a challenge to parents and educators who prefer to keep...
In our recent article titled “When Can Kids Start Gardening?” (which is today, by the way) we discussed the physical fitness development element of the activity. It’s absolutely true that gardening will help your children build core strength and...
When Can Kids Start Gardening? Allow us to take you on a little exercise. It’ll be brief, we promise! Open up your Google (or BING if you prefer) search bar and start typing in “when can kids start…” and you’ll discover the search engine...