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Articles from the National Gardening Association
Grow a Rainbow Garden with your Kids! - It’s widely known that kids need to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. But how do you make this fun and engaging for them? Grow a vegetable garden, says Sarah Pounders, educational specialist at NGA. Gardens motivate children to try new fruits and vegetables Read more
Three Sisters - Although native peoples from different parts of North America used a wide range of agricultural techniques, perhaps the best known is the interplanting of corn, beans, and squash together -- a trio considered by the Iroquois Indians of the east as "The Three Sister" Read more
Native Intelligence - Wildflowers in a can would be the last thing a group of fourth graders in Clinton, WI, would plant in their schoolyard. They've set their sights on the return of the natives, the tallgrass prairies, that, says teacher Kim Lowman Vollmer, are more endangered than the rainforest Read more
Veggie Gardening More Popular Than Flower Gardening - If we believe the English are trendsetters in the gardening world, then we all better tune up our veggie beds. Vegetable gardening has always been the poor cousin to flower gardening in England and America. Other than in times of need, such as during the Depression and World War II, flower gardening has always been more popular than vegetable gardening. But in Britain this trend is changing Read more
Historic Herbal Theme Gardens - "As a middle school science and social studies teacher, I had always been interested in helping students appreciate the impact of food on history," reports Nashville, TN, teacher Sue Luchs Read more
Cultivating Cross-Culturally - "Our city of San Antonio is a culturally diverse melting pot," reports Master Gardener Vernon Mullens. "Since foods can be a window on cultural understanding and appreciation, we're attempting to open that window with an after-school kid's garden that features foods of ethnic groups from around the world that live in our city" Read more
Alluring Pollinators - Butterfly gardens are a favorite and enticing schoolyard theme, but these winged beauties, who help move pollen from male to female flowers so fertilization and seed production can occur, are hardly the only such partners. In fact, thousands of different animal species help pollinate plants, including bees of all sizes, tiny wasps, moths, flies, bats, and hummingbirds Read more
Planting a Pollinator Garden - By creating a garden that attracts a range of pollinators, you can provide vital oases amidst seas of buildings and concrete. Kids can play a role in digging shallow pools and mud puddles and providing piles of twigs and animal hair for nesting materials Read more