I missed the deadline for the awesome Natural Medicine "Earth Day Celebration" Challenge - details found here but I still want to celebrate our beautiful earth! Seeing all those wonderful entries adds to the celebration so go check them out!
The reason I missed the deadline is I have been absorbed in the "Got Dirt? Gardening for Kids" program I have been creating.
This program is not just a course teaching gardening (believe me, I feel that is a valuable skill to have, that survival skill of growing your own food and I believe it should be a part of every child's education) but this program I wanted to add more, to have children connecting with Mother Nature and tuning in to the natural world (get them out of cyberspace), to let them see that Mother Nature wants their garden to thrive if you will work with her.
I have them team up with Mother Nature and her Superheroes, Sun, Seed and Soil, even the Micro-superheroes - the microorganisms that live in the soil and Superhero Soil's sister Water.
The children are encouraged to explore and experience the wonders of nature, getting to know their plants and what makes them thrive.
I found when the kids learn to care for their gardens, to nurture them, they can start to extend that caring out to the whole of our amazing planet, the earth.
So if you have a child or some youngsters in your life, introduce them to Mother Nature and what better way to do that then by growing a garden!
Learn more about my "Got Dirt? Gardening for Kids" program Here
Creating Abundance on Hive
What a cool program, sorry it came a very inconvenient time for us, computer having just bit the dust and now we are experiencing a lot of house problems like constant wifi problems and a lack of water most of the day. On a sidenote, Monkey-B has seen some success planting some things around the house, but the landlords' goats or the weed-whacker always destroys them.
As it's not technically our right to grow things here, we can't complain, but it's disheartening. I guess this situation is a nice metaphor for our current life situation being stuck in Suriname, etc.
It’s a nice post
Memories of childhood planting, after garden preparation takes one a lot further than allowing children to only bury themselves behind computer equipment.
It is good to see many parents here in Hive do take the children and teach them, need not be all day just a couple of hours in the dirt I believe is healthy, soil is not dirty it is nourishing. Starting a worm farm another way in teaching, media preaches going green but little is taught on how to.
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It is wonderful to have kids connecting with nature and learning a survival skill that may keep them from ever having to know hunger.
It's just getting them to disconnect from cyberspace - once you get them hooked into working with the earth and all the wonderment of nature, experiencing that miracle of a seed growing into a food producing plant, then you can let Mother Nature take it from there.
I feel very fortunate that I had a love of nature instilled in me at an early age and Kudos to all the folks here on Hive and elsewhere that are taking that time to do that with there children, get them out in nature and passing on skills like gardening
We were taught growing up, where we live the coastal conditions never worked even carting in loads of compost, I eventually gave up.
Currently planning a raised garden (I saw recently on an Australian show), I know they are grown up but as you said learning how to grow your own really does help. Now winter is coming time to start with walled project using recycled glass bottles. 😉
This is so important what you are doing @porters and such a wonderful way to celebrate the earth, by learning to care for it xxxx
Good morning @porters. Love that "got dirt" slogan. Ever since we started gardening, some 45 years ago, we always said, it's all about the dirt. I never seem to have enough since I keep adding new types of veggies to the roster.
All of my children grow, they started digging and planting when they were tots . Grabbing peas or strawberries right off the plants and shoveling them in their mouth was what they loved to do.
I think you are on to something special. Teaching kids to fend for themselves is so important, what better way to start, growing your own food.
Good luck with the project. I'll check it out.
Enjoy your day.
I hear you about always expanding the gardens to accommodate more veggies! Some of the first gardens I started here was in pure sugar sand but I manages to build up the soil to get it producing!
I love seeing kids in the garden at an early age and being able to send them out to graze!
Thank-you for your kind comment, I'm really enjoying putting this together - lots of fun!
Even though we just have a small group of kids taking this first pilot project, I'm doing the groundwork with plans to bring it to the schools for I feel gardening should be a part of every child education!
If you know of any contacts for getting this program out to more kids let me know.
Good afternoon @porters, I completely agree it should be part of the curriculum, taught at a young age it could change the way they eat for the rest of their lives, making them healthier. There needs to be a shift towards sustainability, supporting local farmers or better yet, growing your own food.
Good luck with the project, excellent choice.
Enjoy your day!