Hello Fellow Enthusiast!
Our Garden Game Fun blogsite centers around the Garden Game presented below because we think it is a great way to open kids' minds to their interest in the fruits, veggies, legumes and herbs they eat each day.
Not only is it a really fun way to introduce names and pictures of various "crops," it opens the door to thinking about growing your own garden which is a great experience for any kid. Even a small herb garden on the kitchen window sill is a marvel of science to a child. I'm still in awe of it myself.
We will be offering other products and information in many aspects of gardening but our main theme is "Garden Game Fun". After you have purchased and played the game we would love to have your comments added because we know you will enjoy it. We made it up from scratch ourselves and think you will agree it is plays well and offers fun educational facts in a very entertaining way.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Garden Fun Board Game
We have created a “family fun” board game with Gardening as it’s theme. It has sold well at our local Farmers Markets and feedback has been great! The kids really enjoy playing and it is educational as well. We have been reviewed and included in the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom, Teacher Resource Guide.
We now wish to offer it to you and your family as a great addition to “game night” at your own house. The days are getting shorter and the cooler weather is setting in. This game will give you great indoor entertainment and healthy competition to see who wins! Ages 5 and up (with help on the reading skills).
The objective is to travel around the board collecting Fruits, Veggies, Legumes and Herbs to place in your garden. The first one to fill their garden is the winner! Sounds easy enough, except, the weather could get you, the bugs could get you or just plain Luck can get you. There are four card piles appropriately named Season, Luck, Pests Varmints & Diseases, and Remedies to help or hinder you along the way.
Buy it now and by Spring you’ll be wanting to plant a garden of your own! Great for gifting also!
On sale now at $21.95 through PayPal.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
What Are The Benefits Of Organic Gardening?
Many people have been seeing the benefits of organic gardening in their lives over the last few decades. It is a way of cultivating plants that does not use artificial chemicals that may damage the planet, kill wildlife and possibly injure the health of people who eat the produce that is grown with the aid of these pesticides and weed killers.
It is too soon to be sure what the effects of mass chemically assisted agriculture and genetically modified crops will be, either on consumers or on the earth. They simply have not been around long enough for anybody to be sure. In the face of this uncertainty, more and more people are turning to organically grown fruit and vegetables, and meat which has been reared on organic land.
Organic gardening and agriculture is nothing new. In fact, if you go back beyond the last 60 years or so, everything was grown organically because laboratory-produced pesticides and fertilizers simply did not exist.
We tend to think of organic food as a modern trend, but it is not at all. The word is new because there was no need for it before, that is all. The organic way of growing things was practiced throughout history from the time that people first learned to plant seeds until very recent times. It is the chemicals that are the modern aspect.
It was the introduction of the pesticide DDT in farming in the 1950s that led to a turn in public opinion. Books like 'Silent Spring' by the well known natural historian Rachel Carson, published in 1962, started an environmental movement that has grown steadily in the decades since. The book's title came from the discovery that DDT was damaging the egg shells of birds, preventing them from reproducing. At the same time, it killed many of the insects that were their food. Carson envisaged a world where there would be no more bird songs.
Largely as a result of this movement, DDT is now illegal in almost all countries. However, many other pesticides are available both to farmers and to us as gardeners which we cannot assess what the long term effects of using them will be yet.
Most gardeners have a fairly small area of land to nurture and there is no need to use chemical sprays on our home grown flowers and vegetables. If our tomato crop fails one year, we will not starve. If our honeysuckle becomes diseased, perhaps it is time to replace it with another climbing plant. If our roses are home to more insects than we would like, we can wash them off or encourage their natural predators to inhabit our garden too.
There may be more benefits of organic gardening than we currently know. Isn't it better to not take chances with our land, our lives and our childrens' health?
It is too soon to be sure what the effects of mass chemically assisted agriculture and genetically modified crops will be, either on consumers or on the earth. They simply have not been around long enough for anybody to be sure. In the face of this uncertainty, more and more people are turning to organically grown fruit and vegetables, and meat which has been reared on organic land.
Organic gardening and agriculture is nothing new. In fact, if you go back beyond the last 60 years or so, everything was grown organically because laboratory-produced pesticides and fertilizers simply did not exist.
We tend to think of organic food as a modern trend, but it is not at all. The word is new because there was no need for it before, that is all. The organic way of growing things was practiced throughout history from the time that people first learned to plant seeds until very recent times. It is the chemicals that are the modern aspect.
It was the introduction of the pesticide DDT in farming in the 1950s that led to a turn in public opinion. Books like 'Silent Spring' by the well known natural historian Rachel Carson, published in 1962, started an environmental movement that has grown steadily in the decades since. The book's title came from the discovery that DDT was damaging the egg shells of birds, preventing them from reproducing. At the same time, it killed many of the insects that were their food. Carson envisaged a world where there would be no more bird songs.
Largely as a result of this movement, DDT is now illegal in almost all countries. However, many other pesticides are available both to farmers and to us as gardeners which we cannot assess what the long term effects of using them will be yet.
Most gardeners have a fairly small area of land to nurture and there is no need to use chemical sprays on our home grown flowers and vegetables. If our tomato crop fails one year, we will not starve. If our honeysuckle becomes diseased, perhaps it is time to replace it with another climbing plant. If our roses are home to more insects than we would like, we can wash them off or encourage their natural predators to inhabit our garden too.
There may be more benefits of organic gardening than we currently know. Isn't it better to not take chances with our land, our lives and our childrens' health?
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