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Keep those young minds and hands busy and learning with a trip to the garden. Having trouble viewing this email? [View this email on the web.]( [The Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club]( [Gardening Club]([Gardening With Kids]( Keep those young minds and hands busy and learning with a trip to the garden. [The Old Farmer's Almanac Gardening Club]( Dear Gardener, If there’s one universal thing we can say about kids, it’s that they’re curious. An afternoon of answering question after question is proof of that. But when you can channel that curiosity, you can create positive lifelong habits and quite a few good memories! That’s why we love getting little ones into the garden. A garden is a festival of sights, sounds, textures, and smells. From the buzzing of bees to the warmth of the soil, a garden is a nature lesson waiting to happen. Time in the garden is also good for mental health and physical well-being. Plus, you get delicious vegetables out of your efforts! If you want kids to eat vegetables, put something on their plate that they’ve grown. It’s guaranteed to work. Beware, though! You can’t give them a plastic shovel and a little corner of dirt to for pretending to garden. They want and need to be part of the real gardening. Don’t worry. We aren’t going to just throw you out there with no strategy. The 2022 Garden Guide includes more than a dozen activities that are fun for kids and adults. These aren’t the boring, busy-work tasks, either. You and your young gardening crew will learn how to attract different pollinators like bees and butterflies. There are projects to bring pest-eating songbirds to your garden. And, of course, there is the additional benefit of bonding with your kids. You’ll have to open up the 2022 Garden Guide to get all of these projects, but here’s a sneak peak. Grow a sunflower room. Kids love an adult-free hideaway, and sunflowers make the perfect clubhouse walls. Plant two or three rows of sunflower seeds for the walls, leaving plenty of space in the center as well as an opening on one side. Water and fertilize your sunflowers, and once they have some leaves, mulch the area to keep out weeds. Though sunflowers can take 70 to 80 days or so to reach maturity, they’ll reach “wall” height much sooner. Make a sip station for butterflies. On a hot day, butterflies need water. Place some smooth stones and gravel in a saucer. Add enough water to wet but not cover the stones. Butterflies will perch on the stones and sip the water. Then they’ll help pollinate your garden! Make mud pies. Will they help your garden grow? Maybe not. But they sure can be fun! There’s more. But… you’ll have to grab the 2022 Garden Guide to read them. It’s all in the digital 2022 Garden Guide, which is yours as part of your membership in the Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club. You also get 8 years of digital Garden Guides, which means you have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 pages of enlightening gardening tips, design ideas, delicious recipes, garden folklore, and more. It’s all at your fingertips with your membership in the Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club. [Image - Bug Mosaic]( Befriend the Little Things That Run the World The majority of Earth’s animal species are insects and other invertebrates, as well as the insectivores that eat them. They’re also crucial to our existence. Insect pollinators are responsible for 80 percent of all plants on Earth. One easy way to help out these “little things” is to grow native plants. Bringing native plants to our landscapes provides essential energy for species-rich food webs. Best of all, you don’t need to be a biologist or trained ecologist to create a habitat designed to attract birds, butterflies, beetles, and bees. Nor do you need a large plot of land. Read the full story in the digital 2022 Garden Guide and find out what you can do to turn your yard and garden into an oasis for the variety of wildlife in your area. It’s all part of the all-inclusive package you get with your Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club membership! [Image - tri-colored bed]( Growing Anew What else is going on in the lives of gardeners this year? Join us for a dive into the facts and trends and find out what your fellow gardeners are up to. You can read more in the 2022 Garden Guide, but here’s a sample. - An estimated 53.6 million American households grow food such as vegetables, herbs, and berries and other fruit. - American households spend an average of $44.39 each year on houseplants. - Since 2020, 18.3 million Americans have started gardening. - In Canada, 18.6% of gardens are on balconies. - Canadians garden for relaxation (69%) and exercise (55.5%). - More gardeners are using cold frames and row covers to extend the growing season. - Canada has declared 2022 the “Year of the Garden.” Curious to learn more? Want to know which “weeds” will attract bees or which are some of the top seed picks for this year? Perhaps you’d like to know which new hybrids have more disease resistance or which flowering plants are drought resistant? All of this is in the newest Garden Guide. 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