Mulch, a cover over the surface of your garden, keeps the soil moist, moderates temperature, lessens weed growth, and adds nutrients to soils as it decays. Best of all, you probably have something around your house or yard that you can use as mulch. Mulch can be free. A Few Mulch Choices I like the…Read the full article.

If you collect your food and yard waste, you can divert it from landfill, save yourself money, and help even the most basic garden by making your own compost. I am not the most advanced gardener. Both of my parents grew up on farms, and I just wasn’t paying a lot of attention to the…Read the full article.

How do I get my children more involved in gardening? I would love to have my children so motivated to garden that they just do it on their own. I get them more involved by focusing on what they already love doing and drawing connections. Both of my children love to write and draw in…Read the full article.

Grow a gardener? Plant a garden your child will find interesting. How about planting a salad garden with the added intrigue of edible flowers? Before I even had children, my husband and I planted edible flowers in our garden just for the joy of it. One day, a neighbor girl about four years old joined…Read the full article.

The end of May marks the last frost for much of southern Canada and northern United States. This means time to play in the garden. Gardening is a wonderful way to give children an area under their own control and responsibility where they can learn a direct relationship between their nurturing care and the harvest.…Read the full article.

I received a great question from a customer today trying to decide which baby carrier would be best for her. This is such a tough question to answer as everyone’s needs are different, but I tried. Keep in mind this customer already decided that she would be using a Baby Sling for the infant stage. Here was…Read the full article.

We have our first backyard in our new home here in Ontario which has opened up so many new avenues for us. One of my favorite things to do is to hang dry our laundry out in the sun. We haven’t used our dryer for the entire month of May! We are also starting to…Read the full article.