Spring Flower Session Sign Up

Here is our first sign up for the What's Growing On club for the Spring Flower session. During this session the kids will be able to plant flowers in a hanging basket to take home. This session will be ornamental and allow the kids to get their hands a little dirty and start working with plants. During the session they will learn about...

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Fall Pumpkin Harvest

Looking for ideas to use up those pumpkins from your harvest this year? I am thinking chips and dip in a fun, decorative way. The kids will love it! This year I threw a Halloween party for my kids and needed ideas for the food. With the help of Pinterest I found loads of things to do. One thing I chose to do was make a dip holder from...

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Mummies Best Banana Bars

Okay so I know we do not grow bananas in Iowa. Fruit is still a very important and vital part of our nutrition, however. Just because we cannot grow something here does not mean we can not eat it. I prefer to eat home grown or locally grown foods, but if we want bananas around here we just have to give in and buy them. With that said,...

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Goblin Stew

GOAL: Get your kids to get excited and eat healthy foods during our oh so loved Fall Soup Season. You want to know how to get kids to eat better? Make it fun! It really is that simple. I wanted to make beef stew the other night so instead of having beef stew, we had Goblin Stew! Doesn't that sound so much better? I absolutely...

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October: Pumpkins Please!

  Okay. So we garden right? We garden to grow food. But whoever said we can't play with our food? Okay, okay... so maybe that is sometimes appropriate. Not here though. We grow our food and of course we should handle it, love it, and from time to time play with it. What better time than pumpkin season I ask you? This is one of my...

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A Pizza Party: a glance at 2014 activities!

Kids love pizza. I think it just comes naturally to them. You want to know what I think is great about pizza? You can put anything on it! I am so excited about planning upcoming activities for next year for the kids of Appanoose County's What's Growing On Club. At the end of our warm growing season here in Iowa next year we will be having...

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Gardening in the Fall?

  Most town people like myself might think that winter in Iowa means it's time to put up all the gardening gear until next spring, right? Wrong! This winter I will be busy working in my green house to get things ready for spring 2014. Snow does not mean we can not grow! One thing we are enjoying around our home right now is the winter...

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