With the help of a group of enthusiastic 3-6 years olds (plus a Grandma) and a whole pile of donated succulents from the families in my son’s Montessori Children’s House Classroom, we created a lovely children’s succulent garden for the children to enjoy. I think it will look so lovely once the succulents are more … More Gardening With Kids- Succulent Garden
Since moving to our new home, we have slowly started to set up an outdoor garden with a mixture of Australian natives (attracts birds, bees, butterflies), flowers, fruit trees, potted herbs as well as a mixed variety of vegetables. We were lucky to get an already established large mulberry bush a pawpaw tree and a … More Gardening with kids update 2019- indoor composting, worm farm and what we are planting in September (Spring)
Hooray it’s Friday! Well It’s Friday here in Australia. Miss 7 has been off school most of this week with an ear infection. Seems she likely picked up something from swimming whilst we were in Fiji and developed a bacterial infection. We are on top of it now and she is feeling so much better … More Our week and other things
Gratitude today for the rain and some time in our garden space. It rained off and on today but that didn’t stop us from having time outside in our new garden space. I will admit that I miss our grassed space and raised garden beds in our last home, but with this new place even … More 30 Days of Gratitude: 23
We have a family member who is trying to sell their home, so we have spent the last few weekends helping in the garden to make it ‘sale ready’. This was a great opportunity for my children to see the work that goes into looking after a garden. They weren’t able to help out with … More More on gardening with children
I don’t have a green thumb but I love to give gardening a go with my children. As we are in a rental property there is only so much we can do in the backyard space. I am very thankful though that we have any space at all. Our last place had no yard but … More Gardening with children
