campfire safety for kids
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Ultimate Guide on Campfire Safety for Kids

You come to the campsite for an enjoyable experience, therefore keep everyone safe with these helpful tips on campfire safety for kids. Whether you are at your backyard firepit, family bonfires, or at a campsite campfire, it is your job to keep your kids safe around any fire. Let’s learn the basic rules for campfire safety for kids. CLICK TO READ MORE.
archery for kids
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Why Archery for Kids Teaches a Growth Mindset

Archery for kids teaches a growth mindset without the pressure of team competition that is involved with other sports. Archery for kids can help strengthen physical development, boost self-confidence, and give children a sense of accomplishment without the social pressure of other sports that are team lead. Let's learn why archery for kids teaches a growth mindset. CLICK TO READ MORE.
attract pollinators to improve harvest
Posted inVegetable Garden Projects

How to Attract Pollinators to Improve Your Garden Harvest

The foods that we grow rely on pollinators in order to set the fruits and vegetables on the plants for us to eat. Since the past few years, our pollinators have been disappearing and our gardens are hurting. I have many friends posting images of their plants dying off and flowers falling to the ground due to a lack of pollination. While we have the ability to hand pollinate our gardens, we also have the power to attract pollinators to our gardens and help them feel welcome and make homes in the habitats we can provide for them. You don't need an unkept lawn to attract pollinators, though you can do some simple things in your garden to help pollinators thrive. Let's dive into how we can attract some daytime and nighttime pollinators to your garden so your garden is pollinated by both day and night shift workers in the garden. CLICK TO READ MORE.
growing potatoes
Posted inVegetable Garden Projects

Why Growing a Potato Patch Is Important for Survival

Growing homegrown potatoes in your backyard provides your family with a delicious healthy and versatile vegetable. You can turn a potato into so many recipes that these vegetables should be a staple in your yard and pantry. Growing a potato patch in just ten square feet can provide you with eighty to one hundred pounds of potatoes! Potatoes can be grown year round, stored long-term in their whole form, provide endless seed potatoes, versatile in dishes, and they are delicious. Let's learn more about why growing a potato patch is important for survival. CLICK TO READ MORE.
homeschooling
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Homeschooling Teens With Anxiety: How Easy It Can Improve Grades

Homeschooling teens with anxiety is often a hot topic with parents and teachers who struggle to find the best help for teens who suffer from anxiety. Anxiety is very real and it hurts many people and it can put a devastating effect on a teen's mental health and self-esteem. It can also wreak havoc on grades and graduation credits that teens need to strive for. This topic is personal and near and dear to my heart as I am a mother of two struggling teens who battle these common issues. However, we are discovering the power of homeschooling and how easy it can improve grades and boost their confidence in themselves as they reach their goals independent from the social stress of public middle and high school. Learn how homeschooling has helped improve my own teenagers' confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, grades, and self-sufficiency and how it can possibly help yours too! CLICK TO READ MORE.
tulips
Posted inCottage Garden

How to Grow and Care for Tulips

Learn how to grow and care for tulips, which are the first blooms to pop through the frosty ground in early spring and multiply each year! The best thing about tulips is that they can continue to grow with their regenerative power in a vase of water after being cut! Plus, they always arrive just in time for Easter! CLICK TO READ MORE.
peegee hydrangea tree
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How to Grow and Care for a PeeGee Hydrangea Tree

Growing a PeeGee hydrangea tree in your yard or cottage garden will bring a large display of beautiful blooms that last all summer long. I live in Northern Utah and regular hydrangeas do not do well with the long harsh winters in my area. However, PeeGee hydrangea trees are frost-tolerant and cold hardy trees/shrubs that they are perfect for my climate. If you have issues growing hydrangeas, try growing PeeGee hydrangea trees and growing gorgeous hydrangeas in your garden. I love them so much, I planted two of them! CLICK TO READ MORE.