Activity: Clay Seed Shapes

Seedballs are an ancient way to keep seeds safe until the right weather for plants to grow. Made of compost and clay, they provide food and protection for the seed until rain melts the clay and activates growth.

This recipe takes a fun spin on the seed ball with the idea that you can make your own vegetable or wildflower seed balls and shapes to share.

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Recipe: Super Seed Granola Bars

Back-to-school season call for snacks that are both fun and nourishing. These bars are packed with almonds, oats, flax, sunflower seeds, and raisins all held together with a marshmallow-style mix of honey, coconut oil, and grass-fed gelatin. Nutritious enough for lunchboxes, tasty enough for dessert, and adaptable to what’s in your pantry.

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Seeds for New Year's Visions

With the ever-so-slightly quickening pace of human and plant life, it’s taking a bit more effort to keep my pace slow and inward for awhile longer in order to embrace mid-winter traditions of reflection, visioning, and renewal that are shared by many ancestral cultures around the world. In that spirit, we’re sharing are a couple of fun family-friendly visioning and planning projects for the garden along with a bit more about some earth-based traditions that take place at this time of year.

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Earth Centered New Year Traditions

This time of mid-winter has been celebrated by many agricultural and pre-agricultural societies around the world as one of rest, reflection and gratitude for what’s come to pass, visioning and prayer for what’s yet-to-come, and renewal of self and community.

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Making Seed Tape

Plants grow best with the right spacing, and sometimes it is hard to plant small seeds like carrots and lettuce - one-by-one. In this cold-weather indoor project, we make plantable seed tape out of newspaper and flour paste to properly space seeds in advance of planting.

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