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Tips for Beginner Gardening
- Utilize the Wisdom of Locals
- Hydroponic Farm From a Sunny Window
- Container Gardens – Upside Down Tomatoes and Plants
- Grow Indoors or On A Windowsill
Fun things to do with your Preschool Kids
Picture from PBS Site
Pretend Animal Hospital Dollar store bandaids for your kid’s stuffed animals
Frozen Grapes An easy tasty snack
Art with Music On
Shaving Cream Share Feeling squishy things
Super Why is Super ready for the future
PBS Kids posted that this App has a “Multi-Touch user interface to enhance the educational experience.”
The App was designed for the iPad and features spelling games.
If you bought this game for your child, let us know what you think.
http://tinyurl.com/superwhyipad (link opens iTunes)
Grow Bags for your Garden
Grow bags are made of a felt like material that allow the plant to breath more, lets excess water escape, and dissipates direct sunlight. Regulating soil helps grow happier healthier plants.
Vertical Gardening using Window Ledge
From Imperfectly Natural:
Gizzi’s top tips for the best window food
1. Pick the windowsills which get the most sun during the day for your window boxes
2. Watching your vegetables grow every day is really fun,
but be careful not to water them too much
3. Plant pretty rainbow chard and lovely smelly herbs for the most beautiful, fragrant windows
4. Start with the vegetables you eat the most like tomatoes (the tumbling kind for window boxes) and lettuce and you’ll notice the difference in taste straight away
5. Root vegetables like beetroot and chard are really easy to grow and don’t need much attention. It is so easy to tell when they are ready as the pink or purple bulbs pop out of the soil
Kids doing Yoga in Canadian Schools
Image Via Halifax News Net
The class is accepted as a gym credit.
From Treehugger “With Western medicine finding more and more evidence of the physical and mental benefits of yoga, it seems the practice finds a natural place in school systems.”
7 Animals being tickled to Brighten up your Day
If you consider Elmo an animal too 
1. Slow Loris
2. Koala
3. Rats (I wouldn’t tickle that)
4. Chimpanzees
5. Kitty
7. Toad
Supermarket lighting enhances nutrients in spinach
Photo from Marc Villalobos, USDA-ARS
According to Science Daily, “The scientists exposed fresh spinach leaves to continuous light or darkness during simulated retail storage conditions for three to nine days. Spinach stored in light for as little as three days had significantly higher levels of vitamins C, K, E, and folate.”
In addition, from the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry “Gene Lester, Donald J. Makus, and D. Mark Hodges note that fresh spinach is a nutritional powerhouse, packed with vitamin C, vitamin E, folate (a B vitamin), and healthful carotenoid antioxidants. ”
Article @ Science Daily
-March 19th, 2010
High Fructose Corn Syrup linked to Liver Scarring
According to Science Daily, “High fructose corn syrup, which some studies have linked to obesity, may also be harmful to the liver, according to Duke University Medical Center research.”
Article @ Science Daily
- March 23rd, 2010