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Children and vegetables may not be a match made in heaven, but kids will love to vegetable garden if they grow these vegetables. We keep hearing that kids spend too much time indoors watching entertainment on a screen and eating junk food. The rate of overweight children and teens has nearly tripled in 20 years, increasing from 6% in from 1976 to 1980 to 16% from 1999 to 2000.*
Ease your kids into loving both vegetables and gardening by surprising them with the unexpected. Purple carrots and a tomato that masquerades as a pepper. Why not? And there's lots more where that came from.
*According to the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, as reported by the Gallup Organization
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Parent's Primer
Many other writings on kids’ gardening start with what to grow and how to design and build a kids’ garden, prepare soil, and plant, but this primer is not just about creating one garden for your kids. It’s about taking advantage of “gardening moments” with your kids every week in your own yard ... and in the garage and at the windowsill and in the basement ...
Through the seasons there are big projects and little opportunities for gardening with kids that can fit seamlessly into your life.This primer will help you learn to recognize those opportunities and turn your kids’ questions into fun discoveries. And you’ll get the garden-building basics too!
