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Are you looking for a great way to spend some quality time with your family while doing something healthy this summer? Consider planting a garden!
According to Beverly Anderson, Executive Director of Ebenezer Child Care Centers with locations in downtown Milwaukee, on Milwaukee’s southside, and in Oak Creek and West Allis/Wauwatosa, “Gardens offer many wonderful opportunities for families to bond as they plan, plant, tend to, and harvest the vegetables they grow.”
Connecting With Nature
Research has shown that gardening is good for people of all ages, because it helps connect them with nature.
“There are certain sensory-rich experiences that only gardening can provide,” says Anderson. “When you work the earth’s soil in your hands, you relieve stress and positively impact your mood and psychological well-being.”
Eating Healthier
Gardening also encourages families to lead healthier lives. The process itself provides fun, engaging, moderate exercise. In addition, it is a very rewarding experience for children to be able to eat what they personally help grow.
Anderson says, “There is nothing like picking and eating a ripe cherry tomato from the vine. It is so juicy and fresh, that children get a whole new perspective of how delicious vegetables can be.”
Likewise, when a family cooks their harvested vegetables together and then sits down to enjoy a meal, they reap the rewards of their efforts in a way that encourages leading a healthy lifestyle.
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Teaching Responsibility
Finally, Anderson says an added benefit of gardening is that it provides parents with a wonderful opportunity to teach children responsibility and patience.
“Parents will need to teach their children to water their plants when needed, weed their garden and pick the vegetables when the time is just right. The entire experience is a wonderful way to share the rewards of nurturing with children.”
Ebenezer Child Care Centers is a not-for-profit, locally based agency committed to providing early childhood programs from the heart. The agency prides itself on being different from other child care providers in that it offers a home-like atmosphere; individualized, nurturing care; and a structured curriculum that is virtues-based for every child’s developmental stage.
Every Ebenezer Child Care Center focuses on all aspects of a child’s development: cognitive, physical, emotional, and social. The agency has locations in downtown Milwaukee, on Milwaukee’s southside, and in Oak Creek and West Allis/Wauwatosa. The agency’s main office is located at 1496 South 29th Street, Milwaukee. For more information, please call 414-643-5070.