{"id":14444,"date":"2019-07-25T13:34:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatbiggreenhouse.com\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2019-07-25T13:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:34:26","slug":"garden-time-with-doug-use-gardening-for-quality-family-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meadowsfarms.com\/great-big-greenhouse-gardening-blog\/garden-time-with-doug-use-gardening-for-quality-family-time\/","title":{"rendered":"GARDEN TIME with DOUG – Use Gardening For Quality Family Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today\u2019s hectic lifestyle has left many families disconnected from nature. Spending time together as a family in the garden is an easy and natural way to have quality time with one another. We are all reading more and more how our younger children are spending too much time indoors on electronics and too little time outside playing. Being outside, as a family, provides opportunities and activities for family time in the garden.<\/p>\n
Writing this blog has given me time to reminisce with my personal upbringing. I have so many fond memories of spending time with many of my extended family members in the garden together picking corn, beans, strawberries, etc. and having fun. The best part for me was when someone would make homemade pies or soups. Boy, those were the days! Without a doubt, these family experiences are what helped mold me into the person I am today.<\/p>\n
Here are some ideas to do together as a family:<\/p>\n
The garden is a fertile ground of opportunities for families to grow together and learn together.\u00a0 Gardening offers the opportunity for the family to share thoughts, ideas \u2013 to talk and to laugh \u2013and to listen to each other \u2013 by working together without the distraction of the cell phone or other popular electronic devices.\u00a0 All these electronic devices have a need in our society today but it shouldn\u2019t be at the expense of enjoying the outdoors and being around nature.\u00a0 Appreciate and respect the outdoors, listen to the natural sounds of the wind, the birds, and animals, and you will be a better person for doing so.<\/p>\n
\u201cBE GLAD OF LIFE BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU A CHANCE TO LOVE, TO WORK, TO PLAY, AND TO LOOK UP AT THE STARS\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Henry Van Dyke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PLANT A LITTLE \u2018FAMILY\u2019 HAPPINESS Today\u2019s hectic lifestyle has left many families disconnected from nature. Spending time together as a family in the garden is an easy and natural way to have quality time with one another. We are all reading more and more how our younger children are spending too much time indoors on … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n