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Let Them Grow: Garden Herbs

Working with herbs and spices help children make the connection between farm and table, or in our case front yard and table. Making these connections early on is a great way to lay the road for healthy and experimental eating. To really teach the concept of garden to table, encourage your child to taste, smell and feel the herbs. Let them play with them, rip them, crush them and explore them. Make a beautiful gift or store the herbs for later use.

Category: Candice Chouinard, Contributing Writer Tags: benefits of gardening with children, garden, garden based learning, gardening, Sense of Place

Playing with a Purpose: Gardening with your Children

Using the seasons as a catalyst for learning can help connect kids to their environment and the seasonal cycles of their community. Garden-based learning is just one activity that is on many minds every spring. Stop and think what else cycles around each year and how you can use it as a point of entry to community-based education. Then take advantage of your local resources, following your interests and education through community engagement.

Category: Hampden County, Hilltown Families, Nature Based Education, Suggested Activity Tags: benefits of gardening with children, Community Based Education, garden, garden based learning, gardening, Sense of Place

Hilltown Families on Mass Appeal: Resources that Support Garden-Based Learning

This month on Mass Appeal, Hilltown Families’ Founder & Executive Director, Sienna Wildfield, joins Mass Appeal host, Ashley Kohl, to talk about ways to engage in your community while supporting the interests and education of your children (and yourselves!) through garden-based activities.

Category: Community Based Education, Mass Appeal, Suggested Activity Tags: 22News, 22News Mass Appeal, benefits of gardening with children, Community Based Education, Community Gardens, garden, Mass Appeal, Sense of Place

Oak & Acorn: Add an Edible Teepee to Your Family Garden this Summer

A Growing Garden It’s that time of the year when we bring out our gardening tools and start tending to our gardens. Gardening with children is a terrific summer activity to do together. It’s fun, very magical, and can be an amazing learning experience. It’s also nice to just be out with your kids, watching your garden grow and change over the seasons. Ever since my daughter, Thu, was a toddler, we… Read More