Tag: dirt

If you want to get kids to actually eat their veggies, it helps if you get them invested in the process and care of the garden. I want my daughters to know where their food comes from, but growing a kid-friendly garden means more than just planting kid-friendly plants. If your kids see the backyard vegetable garden as "theirs," they are far more likely to embrace the products: happily eating radishes and arugula that they've grown on their own. Here are six tips—tested in our home—to get your kids to embrace gardening and become active agents in creating their own food.

Are we too clean?

Consider this hypothesis: Asthma, autism, cancer, arthritis, obesity and MS could be on the rise not only because of improved diagnosis, but also these illnesses seem to correlate with the rise of anti-parasitic and anti-bacterial living.

Apparently, dirt is part of the delicate balance of healthy living. While this shift in disease occurs on the physical plane, what about "dis-ease" on the emotional plane? Are depression, anxiety and stress more prevalent nowadays because we drive ourselves crazy with too pure idealizations and perfectionism?