How to Get Your Kids to Eat Better in 2024
How to Get Your Kids to Eat Better in 2024 The new year is upon us, and one of your goals for 2024 is to have your household eat even healthier. However, convincing the kids to do so (and stay the course) can be a challenge, especially after they’ve been shoveling sugar cookies like snow […]
How PAS is Helping Those at Risk of Food Insecurity
How PAS is Helping Those Most at Risk of Food Insecurity This week (November 14 2023) Statistic Canada released the results of a study that sought to gain a better understanding of which Canadian households are more at risk of food insecurity. The timing is important given that high inflation rates have significantly raised the […]
How Gardens Can Help Kids in Single Parent Households
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 one-third of Indigenous children in Canada live in a single-parent home. While children raised by a single parent […]
How Gardens Help Kids
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, vitamins, minerals, and other beneficial compounds. We all know this. But when you encourage children to actually get […]
How to Keep Kids Interested in Gardening Through the Winter
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 their kids/students engaged in gardening activities as colder temperatures […]
Pre-Gardening Exercises for Kids
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 foster an internal musculoskeletal environment that will do their bodies good for decades to come. And […]
When Can Kids Start Gardening?
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 autocomplete a variety of questions that parents, guardians, and educators ask […]
Maui and Garden Farm Preservation in Canada
What Maui Can Teach Your Students About Garden and Farm Preservation Teachers often use current events to teach students of all-ages about important concepts. Often these current events are tragic, but they come with lessons that are important to learn about, even (or especially) at an early age. This is true for the tragedy that […]
Seed Preservation Lesson Plan for Your Students
Seed Preservation Lesson Plan for Your Students The new school year is here! We’re taking the opportunity to expand upon the Growing Plants in the Classroom lesson plan from last month with a look at – seed preservation. It’s important to teach your students about seed preservation, especially in this very clear time of climate […]
How Kids Can Help Protect Bees this Summer
How Kids Can Help Protect Bees this Summer The warm summer months are peak bee season across Canada. When most us (grownups) were younger, we considered the yellow and black insect to be a threat to summertime fun as we ran in fear of being stung. Thankfully the irrational fear has not been passed down […]