Gardening

How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring—With Kids

How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring—With Kids

To prepare your garden for spring, let your littles ones maintain their own — they take great pride in preparing the area and planting their seeds.

Jenn Cox

6 pandemic habits I refuse to change back

6 pandemic habits I refuse to change back

Natalie Stechyson

The best plants for gardening with kids

The best plants for gardening with kids

Want to encourage your mini green thumb? These plants will get your kid started on their own veg patch (and flower garden, too!)

Signe Langford

How to make a kid-friendly terrarium

How to make a kid-friendly terrarium

This easy DIY terrarium is the perfect activity for kids. With the help of our friends at Crown Flora Studio, we've got the how-to here.

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Go ahead, get dirty—gardening as a family makes it far less of a chore

Go ahead, get dirty—gardening as a family makes it far less of a chore

Four ways to make gardening as a family more fun

Selena Mills

5 Reasons Gardening with Kids Gives Them a Healthy Start

5 Reasons Gardening with Kids Gives Them a Healthy Start

Get kids digging in the dirt alongside you to improve their eating habits, give them a mental health boost and reduce their risk for obesity.

Jill Buchner

Homemade gift: How to make a mason jar terrarium

Homemade gift: How to make a mason jar terrarium

Turn your kid into the cutest garden gnome! Making your own mason jar terrarium is easy and if you add a picture of your kid it makes a great gift.

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How to make juice jug planters

How to make juice jug planters

Frankie Flowers has an easy way for you and the kids to grow your own plants. You'll need soil, seeds (beans are easy to grow) and a container.

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How I accidentally got my daughter to help in the kitchen

How I accidentally got my daughter to help in the kitchen

Tara-Michelle Ziniuk's little city garden encouraged her to get messy in healthy ways with her daughter.

Tara-Michelle Ziniuk

All the best botanical gardens in Canada

All the best botanical gardens in Canada

The buds have sprouted, the grass is green and the fragrance of flowers is in the air. Come see for yourselves!

Emily Sadler

Lessons learned from my family's garden

Lessons learned from my family's garden

Fifty days into her gardening experiment, Jennifer Pinarski is surprised that the vegetables are growing better than the weeds.

Jennifer Pinarski

Why Nature Deficit Disorder scares me

Why Nature Deficit Disorder scares me

Is Nature Deficit Disorder a real thing? Jennifer thinks so—and she needs your help to "cure" this generation of children.

Jennifer Pinarski

Gardening as a family

Gardening as a family

Crystal enjoys watching her daughter tend to her own personal garden—and learn valuable life lessons in the process.

Crystal Allen

Why I've decided to grow my own vegetables

Why I've decided to grow my own vegetables

After a recent visit to her childhood home, Jennifer decides to start her own vegetable garden—to help her cut costs and get back to nature.

Jennifer Pinarski

Motherhood lessons from the garden

Motherhood lessons from the garden

While trying to impose order on her garden, Cara realizes it’s a series of experiments that could lead to some mistakes — much like motherhood.

Cara Waterfall

Grow your own savings

Grow your own savings

Sandra E. Martin

5 family gardening activities

5 family gardening activities

Five fun things that kids can do to spruce up your garden for spring.

Kate Stewart

Tips for gardening with kids

Tips for gardening with kids

Frankie Flowers offers great ideas for gardening with little green thumbs.

Today's Parent staff

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