8 Tips for Getting Your Foster Children to Eat Healthier Foods It can be a real challenge to get any child to eat something that is green, so when it comes to vegetables, particularly if they are green, they will be rejected most of the time by a very high percentage of children. Encouraging healthy
Here’s How Working with Flowers Can Help Your Personal Health Flowers have been used for centuries in a variety of ways. While people tend to work with flowers because it is something they enjoy doing, it is impossible to deny the health benefits or working with flowers. You don’t just have to be a florist
Enjoy the benefits of Gardening for Health: Body, Mind and Spirit There is a lot to be said for gardening. If you think about it, what can be more tranquil than a lovely garden at the back of your home where there is little around you except for nature? If you design your garden with
5 Reasons Why You Should Spend More Time in Your Garden Obviously, more people tend to spend time in their gardens during the warmer months because they host BBQs, garden parties or try to top up their tans. However, for the rest of the year, they are often neglected because they lack the social element,
How to Create a Garden That’s Great for Wildlife and Socialising If you are lucky enough to have a garden, even if it’s quite a small patch, it really does come into its own in the summer months. But as well as different sized gardens, we all have different priorities, generally dictated by the make-up
Gardening Tips: What is your Gardening Focus for This Year? The spring and summer months are a great time to get into the swing of gardening. Whether you are new to gardening or have been on hiatus during the colder months, now is the perfect time to get back into it. Not only will it
Be Prepared and Fight Food Shortages with Hydroponics! A series of events has created a perfect storm: climate change, departing the EU, global supply chain problems caused by the pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine. We are already seeing the impacts with huge rises in fuel costs which impact most of us both directly
Planning A Wildlife Garden That is Fun For Kids, Too A wildlife garden can be extremely rewarding for adults and children alike, but the impacts of a wildlife garden can be much broader than family enjoyment. Many of us are more aware of Climate Change and biodiversity loss and research evidences that what we
The many different options and benefits of having a greenhouse With an increased awareness of the health benefits of gardening, as well as the role our gardens can play in increasing biodiversity and mitigating environmental challenges, it is hardly surprising more people are becoming keen gardeners with many also determined to grow their own herbs
The importance of creating an insect-friendly garden Ask most people if they like bugs and they’ll say they’re not a fan. We get annoyed with flies hovering over our barbeque, and screech at the top of our lungs when a spider dares to enter our home. And not many people love creepy-crawley beetles. However, insects