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		<title>Safety first</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If yours is a family who loves to spend time outdoors, chances are you’ll be in the water from time to time. Our boys’ favorite days are the ones spent by a creek, lake, river, or pool. There are rocks to skip, fish to catch, diving boards to jump off of. 
But as much fun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wednesday List: Ten ways to spend a spring day outside</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 21:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Go on a picnic. 
2. Stage a relay race. 
3. Find a creek and catch crawfish or minnows. 
4. Hunt for snakes or frogs in your garden. 
5. Climb a tree. 
6. Read a book under a tree. 
7. Pick vegetables in the garden. 
8. Take a hike. 
9. Pick wildflowers and share them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take your children to the park on May 22</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 17:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, May 22, has been declared “Take Your Children to the Park … and Leave Them There” Day by Lenore Skenazy, a mom and author of Free-Range Kids and owner of the blog of the same name. In the name of encouraging creativity and activity, Skenazy encourages parents of school-age children to let their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tremendous Treehouses</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/05/tremendous-treehouses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 21:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Huntsville Botanical Garden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most kids would give anything to have a sprawling tree house of their own in the backyard. But if they can’t, the next best thing is to play in someone else’s tree house. At the Huntsville Botanical Garden, the Tremendous Treehouses exhibit is just the place for kids to adopt a tree house for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More books for gardening kids</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/05/more-books-for-gardening-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 22:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Carle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Growing Good Kids Book Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Junior Master Gardeners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shel Silverstein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, I posted about some of my family’s favorite children’s books about gardens and gardening. But there are so many good ones out there, and I recently discovered the “Growing Good Kids Excellence in Children&#8217;s Literature&#34; Book Awards Program, sponsored by the American Horticultural Society’s Junior Master Gardeners, which recognizes the best children’s books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day Every Day</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/04/earth-day-every-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re a gardener who spends a lot of time with your toes in the dirt, every day is “earth day.” But today, as more than 1 billion people in 190 countries participate in ecological celebrations, it’s Earth Day with a capital “E” and “D.” It’s a great day to remind your kids (and yourself) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Alaskan Outdoor Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/03/take-the-alaskan-outdoor-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iditarod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t worry, this has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. Whether you like her or not, we can all get on board with getting outside. And in Palin’s home state of Alaska, both dogs and people are taking to the outdoors this week for the opening of the Iditarod, the iconic dogsled race. The race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gifts for gardening kids</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2009/12/gifts-for-gardening-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[garden gear]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas gifts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving may have been only a week ago, but we’re already in the throes of Christmas around my house. And while I certainly don’t want Christmas to be all about buying and getting, I have to admit that finding cool gifts is part of the fun. (And it’s nice to have “Christmas shopping” marked off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read it and Reap: Favorite children’s books about gardens</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2009/07/read-it-and-reap-favorite-childrens-books-about-gardens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2009/07/read-it-and-reap-favorite-childrens-books-about-gardens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beatrix Potter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Trends DataBank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's books about gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Spitzer's Garden]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Little Red Hen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Secret Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tale of Peter Rabbit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we’re not spending time outside (in the garden or otherwise), my kids and I love to read books together. Not only is reading together fun, but of course it’s educational for kids, even very young ones: According to this research report from Child Trends DataBank, children who are read to regularly display by age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open up: Getting kids to eat their veggies</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2009/06/open-up-getting-kids-to-eat-their-veggies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2009/06/open-up-getting-kids-to-eat-their-veggies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cornell University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting kids to eat vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kids eating vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relish Magazine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While kids who help grow vegetables are generally more interested in eating them (according to several studies described here), it doesn’t always happen that way. Tonight at supper, for instance, my two-year-old ate only meat and didn’t touch his squash, okra or green beans. My four-year-old only ate his green beans because I made him [...]]]></description>
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