We made a simple Indian meal last night. Rice, tomato rasam and a seasoned stir-fry of cauliflower, carrots, onions and green beans with mustard seeds, turmeric, salt, pepper and cilantro.

Gardening with your kids gives you the perfect opportunity to teach your kids about natural resources like water. Creating a Water Wise garden not only will save you money but will help the planet.

Choosing what plants grow next to each other can make a difference on the success of both plants. Some combinations enhance one another while others may be harmful.

At the end of the school year, it’s so nice to do some thing special for your child’s teacher and if your kids help make it the sentiments are even stronger. Since May coincides with the end of the school year, we have a few suggestions of thoughtful and affordable gifts for the teacher.

We’ve picked our 10 favorites that are most appealing to gardening with kids from a list of 101 Ways to Celebrate National Garden Month from the National Gardening Association’s website

The best part for me was seeing how excited my kids were about gardening and interested in learning all about the fun outdoors. To me, there’s nothing like gardening with kids!

I was chatting with my daughter last weekend about planting some things in the garden.  My list was full of vegetables and herbs.  In addition to strawberries, she asked if we could plant flowers.  She does love flowers, so we are definitely adding flowers to the list.
 
 
I thought it might be fun to add some edible [...]

Our garden was full of ladybugs and butterflies.  It was a warm spring evening and we were out in the back yard barbarqueing dinner.  Our kids were outside playing and they discovered dozens of butterflies and ladybugs. 
The kids were delighted to pick up ladybugs and let them crawl all over them.  Sometimes the ladybugs flew away and they chased them [...]

My kids love pizza and we eat it almost every week.  Growing a pizza garden can help your kids understand the connection for the earth to the pizza delivery man.  You can even do it with very little space.  Most of the cherished ingredients grow well in containers and some even grow well indoors.  
Since children are [...]

It’s hard to find good help these days.  Preschoolers, while not high in the skills or strength department, are often enthusiastic partners in the garden.  I found a few specific areas where they can have fun and actually be helpful at the same time!
 
Watering – Honestly, what kid doesn’t enjoy playing with water?  If they [...]