In The Loop With Andy Andrews

ITL139: Surprising Things Your Kids Can Learn from a Garden

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On this week’s episode, I talk about the benefits of gardening with your family and answer a listener question on divided families.   We have a little garden of eight blackberry bushes that we planted three years ago. The first year we got a few blackberries. The second year we got a lot of blackberries. This year we couldn’t pick them all at one time.   This is a great thing parents can do with their kids. Get a couple of plants, take your kids in the backyard, dig a hole, pour some potting soil in it, and stick the plant in the yard. This is what families used to do together. We’ll spend an hour just picking berries and talking to each other. Doing this teaches your children about end results.   Planting something is a great metaphor for life. Zig Ziglar talked about planting a bamboo tree and growing it over ten-years. You water and fertilize it for years without seeing results. Then, in that last year, it will have grown 100-feet. So… did it grow 100-feet in one year or ten years?   What can parents