The more you know, the more you can grow!
Check out our gardening tips, tricks and kid-friendly grow activities. We also have recipes to help use the food you grow to make healthy meals for you and your family!
Feeling uninspired by the soil patch in your front yard? Turn it into a vegetable patch! We make learning how to grow your food fun & easy. If you’re a busy parent, gardening for kids may seem like just another chore to add to the list. However, our kid-friendly grow kits and garden activities are designed to make it a fun, hands-on activity for everyone to enjoy.
Grow a Sunflower!
Sunflowers are insanely low maintenance to grow and maintain. Learn all the tips and tricks on how to grow beautiful tall sunflowers right in your backyard!
Three Tips for Planning a Vegetable Garden
While the cold weather may keep you indoors, planning your spring and summer gardens now will ensure a better harvest and a more enjoyable gardening experience. Here are three tips for getting your vegetable garden set up for spring!
What are Microgreens?
Microgreens are seedlings of vegetables and herbs. They are nutritious, highly aromatic, have intense flavors, and come in various textures and colors. Microgreens are easy to grow outdoors or indoors. Let’s learn why you need to add microgreens to your diet and how to grow microgreens together!
Children Learn from Gardening
When thinking of the ways children develop skills, what do you think about? Playing with blocks? Coloring pictures? Throwing a ball? What about gardening? Yes, that’s right. Gardening is the perfect way to connect with your children and teach them the skills they need to be healthy, responsible, self-confident, and caring.
The Difference between Annuals and Perennials
If you’re a beginner gardener, you know there is a lot to learn; for those more experienced gardeners, there is always room to grow your gardening knowledge! One of the things you’ll need to know is the difference between annuals and perennials. You’ll be one step closer to becoming an expert gardener!
The Basics of Composting
Composting has become a buzzword in the gardening community. But what is compost, how is it made, and what are its benefits? Let’s discuss the basics of composting and learn how to make your compost at home!
Five Ways Gardening Affects Mental Health
It probably doesn’t surprise you that the rates of depression and anxiety have risen since pre-Covid. What may surprise you is the role gardening plays in this. Here are five ways gardening affects mental health.
What does Non-GMO actually mean?
You’ve probably heard the term “non-GMO” and have even seen it displayed on packages in grocery stores. But what exactly is non-GMO, is it safe, and how can you know if your food is affected?
5 Ways to Naturally Protect Your Garden from Pests
Pests see your vegetable garden as an all-you-can-eat buffet. Instead of running out and buying pesticides, here are 5 ways to naturally protect your garden from pests.
What is No-Dig Gardening?
Did you know you can have a productive vegetable garden without digging and tilling the soil? It’s true! With a bit of cardboard and compost, you can create a no-dig garden – the garden you’ve always wanted without the back-breaking work you dread.
Grow a Sunflower from a mason jar!
Sunflowers are insanely low maintenance to grow and maintain. Learn all the tips and tricks on how to grow beautiful tall sunflowers right in your backyard!
Gardening Hacks For Small Spaces
Are you looking to create your own indoor vegetable garden, but you live in a small apartment or lack the outdoor space? You are not alone! Let’s explore what vegetables grow best in indoors, and how both container gardening and vertical window gardening will maximize the use of your new home garden.
How do I teach my child basic gardening?
Most people are afraid to start gardening with kids because they think it will become another chore. By making gardening fun for kids, it will not only become a hobby, but it will be a great way for you to spend quality time with your children outside! Check out these simple gardening tips and easy gardening hacks to get started.
4 Tips for Beginner Gardeners
Many people today are beginning to grow their own microgreens, vegetables and plants. The gardening trend is not going anywhere anytime soon. That being said, why not try gardening yourself?
Why kid-friendly vegetable gardens are so important
Giving your child the opportunity to have their own vegetable garden is so important! Gardening is quite simply one of the most effective and simple ways to be healthier. Growing your own vegetables is also a great way to save some money, and it’s an incredible way to get the little humans outside for a fun and interactive activity.
Square foot gardening - the future of growing your own vegetables
Anyone who has handled seeds before knows how hard it can be to handle them. if you want to grow enough food to feed your family, use the square-foot gardening methods. If you want to do it effectively and don’t want to fumble around with rulers and seeds slipping through your fingers, use the Seeding Square.
10 benefits to teaching children how to grow their own food
Gardening teaches children responsibility and pride in their work. Putting a seed in the ground and doing all of the hard work to receive the literal fruits of their labor, will have lasting impact on young minds.
Three of the easiest plants to grow
When I chat with people who are looking to get into growing, the first question is almost invariably-“what’s the easiest thing to grow?”. As with learning anything new, starting off small is your best bet for staying motivated and learning what works. There is plenty of time to learn how to grow needy and complicated plants. So let’s chat about a few staple crops that are really easy to grow.