This weeks blog is a bit of a change from my usual tech tips. If you read this blog regularly, you know I am a big fan of a blog called Urban Garden Casual and an Urban Gardner myself. This weeks Urban Garden Causal had a blog written By Cindy Naas about Edible playgrounds.
What is Edible Playgrounds? It is a all about teaching kids to grow and cook their own foods. They have sow it, grow it, eat it projects.
They are involved in an ongoing movement to bring urban gardening to schoolyards everywhere all across the UK.
An awesome concept that we here in the US should embrace.
It is sponsored by Dorset Cereals ( a UK brand of healthy breakfast cereal) and there is a fun and inventive site called Edible Playgrounds. The site offers monthly garden activities that include protecting your beds for the winter, what crops can be planted now as well as pictures of edible playgrounds and fun activities for children like how to make Christmas Tag stamps from potatoes and win an apple tree contest.
If you are a gardening fan you owe it to yourself to spend some time at this site and poke around. Great tips for getting your kids involved in gardening even if it is not in your local school yard but you own back yard!
I grow my urban garden in containers on the deck of my condo.
The site is great and even includes a page dedicated to ideas for projects using the cereal box and each box gives kids a mission to make something. Below is a screen capture of the page(it is animated and worth visiting just to check out the animation).
This is right up my alley! Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. I have so many friends that would love this as well...I can't wait to pass this on!