The gardening season is fast approaching here in Michigan, and I am so excited!
Jacque at Seeking
Rest in the Ancient Paths wrote a wonderful post about learning
in the garden.She also posted a photo
journal of her family's gardening experience last year that is very inspiring.
I found a gardening gem this morning that I just have to share: Garden-Based
Learning. This website is geared towards starting school-based gardening
programs, but it contains quite a bit of helpful information, activities,
lesson
plans and other
gardening resources and publications. I was especially excited to find a
downloadable guide entitled Know
Your Insects (a 4-H publication in PDF format) that includes instructions
for starting an insect collection. We are studying invertebrates for our Green
Hour Challenge, and we will be learning about insects as soon as we are
finished with worms, snails and spiders.
I actually entered the site through an invaluable "Getting
Started" section that I haven't been able to find by perusing the main
pages, although I'm sure it's there somewhere. This section will take you to
a variety of helpful pages, also linking to Cornell University's Home
Gardening website.
Cornell's Gardening
Resources website is also full of gardening helps, too many to list here.
Cornell's resources focus on the northeastern United States, but there are
a lot of helpful tips for all gardeners. However, if you live in the U.S., you
can find links to your state's Cooperative Extension System office here.
Here are some of my favorite gardening links:
Garden Guides
Backyard
Wildlife Habitat
kidsgardening.org
(another site with classroom-based ideas - tons of information here)
My First
Garden (the format here is friendly for younger children)
There are so many wonderful gardening websites available. I would love it if
you would share some of your favorites; I'll add them to my list (giving you
credit, of course).
"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what
is planted...." Ecclesiastes 3: 2-3
Happy Gardening!
~Andrea
This sounds great. We were just in the garden today planting various squash seeds and setting up the soaker hose for those and the other transplants.
Blessings,
Laurie
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