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FREE Garden Journal!!
Join "Garden Notes" and plan for Harvest Success as you track and record your gardening progress. Your Free Personal Garden Journal has pages for jotting down notes on the seeds you start, your new plantings, when you fertilized, and even a graph to plot a new garden.
Microfarms—or small acreage farms—are gaining popularity across the country for their astoundingly high yields and great tasting produce, as well as their profitability. This handbook reveals the secrets of successful micro eco-farming and explains what eco-farmers need to know to start their own small agribusiness.
Questions such as What can be grown? How do farmers reach their markets? and What sustainable production methods can be used? are answered in detail and supported be hundreds of real-life examples. A variety of unusual uses for crops are also provided, including producing organic spa products, building an urban greenhouse, creating a heritage rose farm, or cultivating a connoisseur apple orchard. Ecologists, amateur gardeners, farmers, and those interested in sustainable living will enjoy this in-depth look at the spiritually and f inancially rewarding aspects of this new field.
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Gardening With Children
Of the many ways to do the Earth good, perhaps the most far-reaching is to convey to children a sense of love, respect and responsibility for nature's beauty, power and vulnerability.
We hope you will find this a useful resource in your quest for sustainable organic education resources. Gardening with children is a fantastic resource for involving childrens' gardening projects with your own passion. Start them young, and gardening with children will be a fun, rewarding pastime for years to come. Children's gardening is a fast growing hobby, shared by children and adults alike.
Composting for Kids
A scripted slide set written and produced by Robert E. (Skip) Richter,
CEA-Horticulture, Travis County, Texas Agricultural Extension Service.
Gardening for Kids
Children's gardening site, easy plants to grow, information
on plants, kid art, kid critic, links to gardening sites
US Apple Association Kid's Page Apples and kids go together naturally! This section has information written just for children about apples and the apple industry.
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/justice.htm
Environmental Justice is the fair treatment of people of all races,
cultures and income with respect to the development, implementation
and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, programs and policies.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/kinder.htm
An introduction to the many ways children can interact with plants and the outdoors.
http://www.kidsgardening.com/
Helping young minds grow!
http://www.pierce.wsu.edu/Nutrition/GWP/index.htm
A 4-H EFNEP Youth Curriculum Teaching Nutrition Through Gardening Education.
Children's Butterfly Site
Coloring pages, answers to frequently asked questions, references to butterfly
and moth books and videos suitable for young people, including Butterfly
Gardens, Activities with Butterflies, and Teacher Resources.
Microbial Ecology
Go on a safari to discover microscopic organisms and the habitats
in which they live. Here you will find tales of amazing microbes and
curious environments, stories from the popular press (newspapers,
magazines, etc.) related to microbiology and microbial ecology; and
Listings of books, videos, software, internet sites, magazines, events,
and other resources related to microbiology and microbial ecology.
PLUS! Profiles of REAL Microbiologists!
Kids Valley Garden Showing a young child the wonders of vegetable gardening is the second greatest pleasure of the garden. The wonder in their eyes when they dig potatoes and see food popping out of the ground is a joy to behold. In the Kids Valley Garden, Louise Larabie shares her joy of gardening with a lot of kids in the short growing season of Ontario, Canada.
For Older Children
http://interactive.usask.ca/ski/agriculture/activities/soil.html
These activities are designed for you to study
how soil and the environment affects agriculture.
Give fools their gold and knaves their power.
Let fortune's baubbles rise and fall.
He sows a field or trains a flower or plants a tree, is more than all.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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