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Grow Your Health festival to screen GMO OMG
The Grow Your Health gardening, food & wellness festival seemed so important when it first launched in 2013, I left ...
Gardening takes off at 8th Rooting DC forum
Attending Rooting DC is enough to make a person want to dig under the snow to get started gardening! The 8th annual ...
Real Food for Kids brings young chef competition to Williams-Sonoma
Parents who care about Real Food couldn’t have asked for a better display of enthusiasm for cooking than that shown ...
Green Schools National Conference comes to Virginia in March
Anyone who thinks the words "environment" and "education" should go together: Virginia Beach looks like the place to be March ...
Environmental educators convene at newly renovated Marshall High School
Leaders of Northern Virginia’s environmental education scene met last week to discuss recent renovations and sustainability initiatives taken at George ...
Super Food Cards debut! (+ giveaway)
Long before launching the new Nourish Schools Super Food Cards this past October, Katherine Sumner has been an inspiration on ...
Waldorf schools host magical fall events
There may be a lot of fall festivals and holiday bazaars, but there's nothing quite like an event at a ...
Holistic Moms Network to host Natural Living Conference
Holistic Moms Network is a cool enough group for local and online support for living holistically, but it's even more fun ...
Simplicity Parenting author coming to DC this weekend
Simplicity Parenting is one of the books I had out last week at the Holistic Moms Arlington/Alexandria daytime meeting on "Supporting Children's ...
Resources for Children’s Yoga
At the first National Kids Yoga Conference on September 27, we learned about many wonderful recording artists, authors and others providing ...
Yoga camps and unique summer camps
While many of the biggest and most well-established camps in the DC area filled when there was still snow on ...
Photography Camp: Spend a week enjoying and capturing the magic of the outdoors
When I learned that Jessica Wallach of Portrait Playtime was going to teach a photography-themed camp at the nature-loving Eastern Ridge School in ...
Outdoor Classrooms
How does your school garden grow? Spring is a busy season for gardeners and, as the past few weeks have ...
Bike to School Day 2014
Not only are moms around the country lobbying legislators today for clean air as part of the Moms Clean Air ...
Arts and nature in early childhood education
Learning outdoors and creating with nature can be beautiful and fun, but for some educators, the how-tos are not obvious. On Saturday, ...
Showcase connects students to environmental realities
Green teams, eco-clubs, Earth Force crews: environmentally-aware students of all stripes came out to the April 10 School Environmental Action ...
5 Reasons We Love Our Nature Preschool
There are a number of preschools in the DC area that I call "outdoor-happy preschools" -- places where children are expected ...
