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The Ultimate Guide to Gardening With Kids

April 9, 2018 By Laura 10 Comments

The Ultimate Guide to Gardening With Kids

Whether you can start gardening with your kids today, or whether you still have a month or more to go before it’s safe to plant outside (like me…le sigh), I’ve got some gardening ideas here you can try with your kids right now. I’ve been itching to get out there. Dirt under the nails, bugs […]

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How to Compost

June 5, 2015 By Laura 2 Comments

How to Compost

So I mentioned last week that we started composting. I’ve been scared to try because it looked like a hassle, but we finally did and here’s what we’ve learned about how to compost. My husband brought home this kitchen composter that’s all cute and sits on our counter. We just dump our kitchen scraps in […]

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Fairy Garden Ideas

March 2, 2015 By Laura 1 Comment

Fairy Garden Ideas

We’ve been gathering fairy garden ideas and making our own for a few years now. I can’t think of any other activity I do with the kids that’s so much fun to set up. And after the initial set-up, the kids spend hours playing with the gardens and fairies. Everyone loves the fairy garden — from the […]

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The Fairy Garden

June 3, 2014 By Laura 4 Comments

So after a wee break last week to attend to the end of the school year…and to the first patient here requiring a cast (I figure one cast after 11 years and four kids is a pretty good record by OSHA standards, yes?)…we’re back and ready to start our summer. One of the first orders […]

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5 Tips for Gardening With Kids

March 10, 2014 By Laura 13 Comments

5 Tips for Gardening With Kids

It’s staying light later…and yesterday, it was almost 70 degrees here. I know what’s going to happen. It always does. The weather turns warm, I get suckered into planting something fun and colorful outdoors, and then we get a snowstorm that buries my flowers and a little bit of my soul under a foot and […]

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Simple Greens

February 24, 2014 By Laura Leave a Comment

There’s a good chance my mom’s going to read this (hi, mom!) and laugh and laugh, because when she came to visit last week, she was horrified to see I’d murdered all my orchids. However. Dead orchids notwithstanding, I really think one of the best ways to combat a dreary mid-winter is with some living, green […]

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