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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

Gardens are Fertile Resources for Supporting Community-Based Education

Using the seasons as a catalyst for learning can help connect kids to their environment and the seasonal cycles of their community. Gardening 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: Community Based Education, Hilltown Families, Suggested Activity Tags: Community Based Education, garden based learning, gardening

The Children’s Garden Project Brings Garden-Based Learning into the Community

The Children’s Garden Project started in 2013 with two college students, a hodgepodge collection of garden tools and a goal: to connect urban children with nature and basic agricultural concepts through a specially designed educational curriculum…

Category: Community Based Education, Hampden County, Hampshire County, Take Action, Volunteer Opportunity Tags: Community Service, Experiential Learning, garden based learning, Garden-Based Science, gardening, integrated learning, Service Based Learning, Sustainability, Sustainability Education, Volunteer Opportunity

Let’s Play: Sunflower & Popcorn Houses

Families in the Dirt Snow pants, boots and mittens be gone! It’s time for sunny afternoons and mud pies after a spring rain. Outdoor clean up. Digging. Rakes. Water. Hoses. Sticks. Rocks. Shovels. Mud. Now that the younger ones are completely engrossed in dirt play, encourage the older kids to put down their devices and join you for fresh air and sunshine. Their play job this month is to help you design… Read More