I would like to see Everyone grow a Garden!
Want to start your own vegetable garden? All you need is a sunny location with soil amended with organic compost, manure and other rich organic materials! Raised beds can be built to overcome particularly poor soils. If space is limited, try container gardens on your porch, patio or balcony. There are many resources to get started. Start by visiting your local independent garden center. Local garden clubs are another great resource for valuable information. And The Farmer's Almanac is my best friend! I have extremely limited space so I supplement my own harvest by purchasing a share of my local farmers' harvests via the farmers cooperative CSA, Family Harvest out of Yellow Woods Farm in Hermann, Missouri. The cost of a 20 week season Family Share (approx. 20lbs of fresh produce per week:) is $550 (less than $30 per week) or $350 for a half-share. The food is delivered to a convenient location for pick-up.
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Useful Links for Gardening and CSA
- Find a local CSA
- CSAs are popular for good reasons! use this link to locate a CSA convenient for you.
New Table of Contents
- CSA
- Useful Links for Gardening and CSA
- 2008 Organic Food-Gardening at The Kid's Culinary Academy
- Welcome to the Children's Learning Corner!
- growing an indoor organic herb garden
- Gardening for Kids- Useful Ideas and Links
- Childrens Organic Gardening Link List
- School Gardens
- You need to know only three things to run a successful school garden:
- FAO: Setting up and Running a School Garden
- School Gardens are a great idea!
- The Compost Pile
- Organic Mulch is key to successful Gardening:
- brief History of Organic Gardening
- Solar Powered Mulching Mower
- More information about Mulching and a Link to win a Mulching Mower Contest ends May 25
- Backyard Herb Garden
- Beyond your own yard:
- Indoor Gardening
- Indoor Garden- Preparing the Space
- Successful Organic Gardening In Containers
- Organic Gardening
- Invisible Gardener Podcast
- Planting Seeds
- Your Indoor Garden does not have to cost a lot of money!
- Recycle items around the home to use as containers
- The Most Important Thing: Water Supply
- Water Supply
- Clean Water for People
- Environmental News Links
- ENN: Top Stories
- Great Stuff on Amazon
- New Guestbook
- Journey to Forever: a great resource for Organic Gardeners, all levels of experience
2008 Organic Food-Gardening at The Kid's Culinary Academy
2008 Organic Food-Gardening at The Kid's Culinary Academy
In 2008 we've added to our one of a kind culinary instruction aquaponics (the integrated growing of tilapia fish and micro-greens and culinary herbs in a greenhouse); organic square foot and container gardening; shitake mushroom growing; beekeeping; composting and olive oil herbing. We've designed a farm to table experience for campers between the ages of 10 and 17 in Highgate, Vermont less than 45 minutes from Burlington. One and two week camp sessions begin June 1 and end August 30.
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Welcome to the Children's Learning Corner!
growing an indoor organic herb garden
kids and eco-Friendly:)
growing an indoor organic herb garden {kids + eco friendly}
Whether you are preparing a fancy meal or a quick dinner, nothing enhances the flavors of food like fresh herbs. What better place to find them than right in your own kitchen! Many herbs can be grown successfully on a bright, sunny indoor windowsill. Check out our quickie video for growing a one-pot organic herb garden.
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Gardening for Kids- Useful Ideas and Links
National Junior Horticulture Association The NJHA was founded in 1934 and was the first organization in the world dedicated solely to youth and horticulture. It is a national program that helps young people develop skills in and obtain an understanding of horticulture.Setting up and running a school garden FAO encourages schools to create learning gardens of moderate size, which can be easily managed by students, teachers and parents, but which include a variety of nutritious vegetables and fruits, as well as occasionally some small-scale livestock such as chickens or rabbits. Production methods are kept simple so that they can be easily replicated by students and parents at their homes.
Childrens Organic Gardening Link List
- Gardening Launch Pad
- Launching Pad of Links and Ideas
- National Junior Horticulture Association
- NJHA Creed
We are growing, living parts of this earth.
We are conscious of our desire to cultivate our horticultural abilities and find comfort in sharing this knowledge.
We make our way together, each on a separate path, yet all in the same direction.
We are the National Junior Horticultural Association, and we accept the challenge of being the horticultural leaders of tomorrow. - the kids garden
- TheKidsGarden contains over 60 articles all written by our team of experts and we add around 3 new articles each month.
- Green Teacher
- Green Teacher is a magazine that helps youth educators enhance environmental and global education inside and outside of schools.
- kids gardening
- The National Gardening Association (NGA), founded in 1973, is a nonprofit leader in plant-based education. We serve a national audience with timely materials designed to foster an appreciation for the benefits of gardening.
- Butterfly Gardening: the Butterfly Website
- Everything you want to know about Butterflies and Butterfly Gardening:)
- Junior Master Gardener
- enter the Plant Parts Rap Video Contest!
- Earth Day
- Founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide.
Earth Day Network is a driving force steering environmental awareness around the world. Through Earth Day Network, activists connect, interact, and have an impact on their communities, and create positive change in local, national, and global policies. EDN's international network reaches over 17,000 organizations in 174 countries, while the domestic program engages 5,000 groups and over 25,000 educators coordinating millions of community development and environmental protection activities throughout the year. Earth Day is the only event celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all backgrounds, faiths and nationalities. More than a half billion people participate in our campaigns every year.
Our mission is to grow and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable planet. We pursue our mission through education, politics, events, and consumer activism.
School Gardens
CBC Totally Toronto - Winchester School Garden
Green Thumbs /Growing Kids in the media: the first of four one-minute segments from CBC's Totally Toronto. Watch kids learn to grow food gardens on the school grounds in downtown Toronto
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"Wuzzleburg Preschool Garden Awards: $1000 to 75 exemplary preschool programs across the country!"
You need to know only three things to run a successful school garden:
How to cultivate people,
How to cultivate plants, and
Where to go for help.
Here's my favorite link:
School Gardens are a great idea!
The Compost Pile
Garden Girl TV: Simple Easy Compost Bin
Organic Mulch is key to successful Gardening:
do not bag your Lawn Clippings!
Mulch is any material that is placed on the soil to conserve moisture, improve grow conditions and moderate soil temperature. Inorganic mulch like ground up tires, gravels, stones, etc do nothing to improve the soil quality or fertility and may even cause the soil to be more susceptible to temperature extremes. Organic mulch- grass clippings, shredded bark and leaves, dead flowers, coffee grounds, etc are valuable to the soil and improve your garden.
Fertilize your lawn naturally! Leave the clippings on the ground when you mow the lawn. Mow high, dry and often and you will add a great amount of nutrients naturally to your lawn. It is reported to add as much as 70% of the nitrogen needed! Lawn clippings that blow onto the walkways can be collected and used in garden beds. Please, avoid sweeping them into the street where they end up in storm sewers and eventually into waterways causing phosphorus levels to rise and give bloom to algae. Also, toxic pesticides can end up in our drinking water! Pay no attention to the rumors that grass clippings left on the lawn will cause thatch, it is not true. If you like, there are nice mulching mowers on the market. Mulching naturally with grass clippings is one of the easiest and effective ways to immediately begin to improve your lawn.
brief History of Organic Gardening
Just a century ago, nearly every farm in the world was organic! Chemical pesticides and fertilizers were only coming into being and it would not be until after World War I that they became abundant enough and inexpensive enough to put them within the reach of every consumer. Today, we understand the damage all these chemicals have done to our soil and the health of the consumer... we realize the cost both to the human population and the health of the planet. We are beginning to become farmers, individual growers again! And we want good organic soil, clean water and natural fertilizers like the humus from our own composts:) What about the Indoor Garden? for those of us who want to grow our own organic food yet it is impractical for us to have an outdoor garden, the Indoor Garden is becoming very popular!Click Here for Organic Gardening Manual!
Solar Powered Mulching Mower
Mowing with Solar
Renewable energy lawn mowing with a cordless mower. Charging the battery afterwards with a 45 watt solar power panel array and charge controller. Describing the recharge process and amp-hour use. Not having to buy gasoline at the station and saving gas at $4/gallon is becoming a significant benefit. On some occasions I even have a little battery energy left over and mow my neighbors adjacent side yard too. Mower Black and Decker 24 Volt Cordless Rechargeable 19" Mulching Lawn Mower Model# CMM1000 Battery x 2 Panasonic VRLA Valve Regulated Lead Acid 12 Volt 20ah (20hr rate) Model# LC-X1220AP Charge Controller Morningstar Prostar 15 Model# PS-15M Solar Array Harbor Freight 45 Watt Amorphous See the webpage write up at http://www.frontiersprings.com/mow.html Battery Desulfator info at http://www.frontiersprings.com/desulfator.html Please rate this video if you found it useful.
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Here's my favorite link:
More information about Mulching and a Link to win a Mulching Mower Contest ends May 25
Backyard Herb Garden
Backyard Herb Garden
A Master Gardener project- to renovate a ten-year old herb garden. We couldn't do it without our volunteers!
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Beyond your own yard:
Nurseries and Material Yards are great sources for mulching materials!
Indoor Gardening
Indoor Garden Part One
Patti, the Garden Girl, sets up a seed starter.
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Indoor Garden- Preparing the Space
"Now for the fun part! Planting the Seeds... what do you want to grow?"
Successful Organic Gardening In Containers
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Invisible Gardener Podcast
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Your Indoor Garden does not have to cost a lot of money!
Recycle items around the home to use as containers
Garden Girl TV: Indoor Garden Part 4
Patti works with recycled containers in the indoor garden.
The Most Important Thing: Water Supply
One of the most important things to consider for your Indoor Organic Garden is the Water Supply!
Water Supply
Garden Girl TV: Indoor Garden Five
More indoor gardening from Patti the Garden Girl. Feel free to post or embed me.
Here's my favorite link:
Environmental News Links
- WaterAid
- WaterAid and its partners use practical solutions to provide safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.
We also seek to influence policy at national and international levels. - Reuters: Environmental News
- latest news
ENN: Top Stories
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byGreat Stuff on Amazon
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
Amazon Price: $8.97 (as of 09/06/2008)
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 09/06/2008)
All New Square Foot Gardening
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 09/06/2008)
New Guestbook
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RawBill
Great Lens! I have bookmarked this one for future reference, thanks! Posted May 15, 2008 |
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rms
School gardening is a great idea! Thanks for sharing! Posted May 01, 2008 |
Here's my favorite link:
Journey to Forever: a great resource for Organic Gardeners, all levels of experience
