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Gardening with Children

Gardening with Children
By Beth Richardson Cpn

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Involving children in gardening activities can be rewarding for both the adults and the children. This splendid, full-color book is devoted to creating an adult-centered garden that includes and celebrates children's efforts in the garden. Beth Richardson offers innovative and creative ways to start a family garden in which children can work and dream and feel accomplished -- and have some fun, too. Her approach is aimed at having children help without allowing them to feel overwhelmed by the responsibility for a whole garden. This book will help parents as they instruct their children on the basic processes that support life. The projects are accessible and fun for today's busy families.
-- For anyone who enjoys parenting and gardening.
-- A practical guide to family gardening.
-- Projects and recipes take children's tastes into consideration without sacrificing the food and design preferences of adults.
-- Introduces children to many cultures through food.
-- Includes theme gardens for those interested in gardening on a smaller scale.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #834444 in Books
  • Published on: 1998-05-01
  • Released on: 1998-05-01
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 153 pages

Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.com
Richardson creates an unusual approach to gardening, a guide to including children of all ages in the garden. Divided into two main sections, "Including Children in the Gardening Activity" and "Making Gardening Fun for Children," the author provides all the basics of gardening--planning, planting, composting, soil preparation--but shows how to include children in the process, how to interpret and teach, and how to engage them fully and joyfully in the entire process from planting to gathering flowers and eating the vegetables they have helped to grow.

Some of the activities outlined are creating a "pizza garden," building a heritage garden, making a scarecrow, carving personalized pumpkins, and saving seeds. To bring the pleasures and delights and knowledge of the garden and gardening to children will give them an experience that will last a lifetime. --Mark A. Hetts

From Booklist
Richardson's aim is to get children interested in gardening, and she explains how to include them in daily gardening activities, from planning to planting and tending. She begins with a chapter on what is best to plant in the various hardiness zones and follows with instructions on laying out a garden, designing and building a raised-bed garden, preparing soil organically, and planting and tending a garden. She discusses theme gardens that children will enjoy: pizza, pasta, snack, heritage, pet, and fall holiday gardens, among others. A final chapter on garden-related projects includes making a scarecrow, a pressed-flower card, garlic braids, a cornhusk doll, and an apple wreath. There are 130 photographs and many helpful black-and-white illustrations. George Cohen

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This splendid, full-color book offers innovative and creative ways to start a family garden in which children can work and dream and feel accomplished, without allowing them to be overwhelmed by too much responsibility. 100 color photos.