Home and Garden
Whether you're on a mission to declutter your child's closet, or hoping to get your little ones into organic gardening, you'll find tons of information here each month.
Read on for expert tips on getting organized, great ideas for young green thumbs and much more!
Recent Articles
Green Bites: Alone Time in the Family Spa
Alone time. As parents, we need, crave and must protect our alone time. Engineering alone-time opportunities is one of those must-have developmental parenting survival skills — which hopefully every one of us acquires after only a few “mommy/daddy totally loses it” episodes, which can take the form
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Green Bites: Eat Your Salad, Save the World
The problem with young people today? They don’t eat their salad. You may be blessed, as I am, to have children who eat their salad, but I bet, like me, you had to work for full-family green-salad acceptance. Indeed, I occasionally cross paths with a non-salad-eating adult, and I am always shocked
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Start a Giving Garden: A Guide to Food Bank Gardening
As a school-age kid, too young to understand what food stamps meant, I simply thought they were cool. We got to have choice. Back then, food stamps still came in different paper denominations like money. So when my dad gave me a $5 food stamp to spend with my friend, it meant my sister and I could g
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Nursery Inspiration: 10 Fresh Ideas for Baby’s First Room
Around the WorldHere’s the perfect theme for the international and traveler types. The worldly themed nursery featured over at the Nest Design Studio blog has so many clever ideas for tying the travel theme into a baby’s nursery: a map mobile, map-covered initials, framed prints in different languag
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10 Fun Backyard Play Space Ideas for Kids
No pavement nearby for summertime scribbles? Take a tip from Mom Beth Anne of Okay, BA! and create a DIY backyard chalkboard for the kid artists in your life. Easily made with salvaged wood, some chalkboard paint and a couple of screws, this project is quick and inexpensive – and provides a renewabl
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How to Make a Home Eco-Friendly, Green and Safe for Kids
I’m a nester. I rearrange rooms in my spare time, fantasize about buying furniture I won’t be able to afford for at least 30 years (if ever), and spend weekends painting walls and messaging Etsy sellers about accessories. But the more I learn about the products, the more complicated being a nester
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Someone You Should Know: Lisa Taylor
Lisa Taylor is the children’s education program manager at Seattle Tilth, an educational organization that teaches us ways to grow food organically, conserve natural resources and support our local food systems. When she is not growing and eating plants with children, Taylor, author of Your Farm in
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How to Organize Toys, Crafts and More: 10 Creative Storage Ideas
Shipping StationOh, how we love a clever idea! Check out this dish-rack-turned-shipping-station over at Live Laugh Rowe. Mama Kelly picked up an inexpensive dish rack for less than $20 and instantly she had a place to store shipping supplies for the family: envelopes, tape, stamps, and more. Th
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