Focus on your health gives you a sense of control
Focus on your health in uncertain times is something that you can do to feel good & positive about your marriage and other relationships.
Many people are turning to gardening this year, to enjoy life NOW and look to the future as a couple, individual or family.
Audrey Hepburn said it best, “To plant a garden is to believe in a better world.”
So the best thing for family relationships is to do it together!
Gardening was an integral part of life for many of our ancestors in generations past, but today, most of us get all of our food at large supermarkets and spend very little time thinking about where it actually comes from, or how it’s grown.
Now more than ever it is important to plant seeds of hope.
While so much of the human world is still on pause, Nature just keeps on growing.
Seeds planted today will be food in just weeks, indoors or outdoors.
Should Every School Have a Year-Round Gardening Program?
Gardening was an integral part of life for many of our ancestors in generations past, but today, most of us get all of our food at large supermarkets and spend very little time thinking about where it actually comes from, or how it’s grown.
The Waldorf School’s Focus on your health
The Waldorf School of Cape Cod has a 24 by 48-foot hoop house on their school property, wherein the children, along with adults, plant and harvest crops.
Every student in the school devotes some time each year to working in the greenhouse, but the third-grade students are always the weekly farmers, in charge of tasks such as turning lunch scraps into compost using the school’s tumbling composter.
Even throughout the summer, the school offers family gardening once a week so students can come with their parents and work in the garden
The Charlton Manor Primary School’s Focus on your health
London’s Charlton Manor Primary School was started by the school’s headteacher, Tim Baker put some unused land on the school’s property to good use and start a garden.
“I saw a garden as an opportunity for the children to learn in a real way, in an outdoor context, while also instilling an understanding of where their food came from and the importance of eating fruit and vegetables.”
Baker wanted to use the garden to teach other topics as well, including life cycles, flowering plants, pollination, adaptation, creative writing, and report writing.
“I believed that plenty of subjects could be well taught in a garden, while increasing pupils’ activity levels and encouraging teamwork,” he said.
After four years, the garden has become a central part of the school’s curriculum. Teachers noticed distinct positive behavioral changes in their more difficult pupils.
“In maths measurement classes, children have mapped out flower beds rather than relying on small-scale drawings in textbooks. We’ve produced charts and graphs by measuring sprouting sunflowers, and recorded weather information from the weather station and charted its effects.”
Produce from the garden is sold at the school shop, which is run by students on weekdays. The sales revenue helps to fund the garden and has allowed them to purchase tools and supplies when needed.
Baker has seen the remarkable positive impact the garden has had at his school and his community.