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Great tips for cultivating a love for the garden and taking care of your health. As writer Tracy Chevalier said, “Nowhere am I as happy as in my garden. It is the safest place in the world. “I know all the plants, all the trees, all the stones, all the lumps of clay.”

The farmer is aware of the benefits of the garden - Taking care of the soil, choosing the best time, climate, care, these things take time and commitment.

But……. What would the world be without pollen? Pollen plays a crucial role in agriculture, especially in the production of fruits, vegetables and grains. It is estimated that more than 75% of the world's food crops depend to some extent on pollination (pollen transfer). Therefore, a large part of our diet is at stake. Every seed, grain and fruit we eat is a direct product of pollination. In a scenario of high food demand, we cannot ignore pollen or the work of pollinators.

As pollinating agents, bees, butterflies, birds, moths, beetles and even bats influence the stability and plant diversity of ecosystems and the yield (quantity and nutritional quality) of crops in agroecosystems.

Microgreens top the list of quick-growing vegetables because you harvest and eat them while they are still seedlings. As such, it only takes 2 weeks at most for the microgreens to be table-ready! There are over a dozen different microgreens to choose from and all can be easily grown on your kitchen counter with just a grow light! - Others less than 60 days.

https://www.feathersinthewoods.com/2020/03/vegetables-that-grow-quickly.html .----

https://themicrogardener.com/17-fast-growing-vegetables-for-impatient-gardeners/ .----

https://evergrowingfarm.com/2019/06/6-vegetable-you-can-grow-in-less-than-60-days/ .---

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Great tips for cultivating a love for the garden and taking care of your health. As writer Tracy Chevalier said, “Nowhere am I as happy as in my garden. It is the safest place in the world. “I know all the plants, all the trees, all the stones, all the lumps of clay.”

The farmer is aware of the benefits of the garden - Taking care of the soil, choosing the best time, climate, care, these things take time and commitment.

But……. What would the world be without pollen? Pollen plays a crucial role in agriculture, especially in the production of fruits, vegetables and grains. It is estimated that more than 75% of the world's food crops depend to some extent on pollination (pollen transfer). Therefore, a large part of our diet is at stake. Every seed, grain and fruit we eat is a direct product of pollination. In a scenario of high food demand, we cannot ignore pollen or the work of pollinators.

As pollinating agents, bees, butterflies, birds, moths, beetles and even bats influence the stability and plant diversity of ecosystems and the yield (quantity and nutritional quality) of crops in agroecosystems.

Microgreens top the list of quick-growing vegetables because you harvest and eat them while they are still seedlings. As such, it only takes 2 weeks at most for the microgreens to be table-ready! There are over a dozen different microgreens to choose from and all can be easily grown on your kitchen counter with just a grow light! - Others less than 60 days.

https://www.feathersinthewoods.com/2020/03/vegetables-that-grow-quickly.html .----

https://themicrogardener.com/17-fast-growing-vegetables-for-impatient-gardeners/ .----

https://evergrowingfarm.com/2019/06/6-vegetable-you-can-grow-in-less-than-60-days/ .---

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Great tips for cultivating a love for the garden and taking care of your health. As writer Tracy Chevalier said, “Nowhere am I as happy as in my garden. It is the safest place in the world. “I know all the plants, all the trees, all the stones, all the lumps of clay.”

The farmer is aware of the benefits of the garden - Taking care of the soil, choosing the best time, climate, care, these things take time and commitment.

But……. What would the world be without pollen? Pollen plays a crucial role in agriculture, especially in the production of fruits, vegetables and grains. It is estimated that more than 75% of the world's food crops depend to some extent on pollination (pollen transfer). Therefore, a large part of our diet is at stake. Every seed, grain and fruit we eat is a direct product of pollination. In a scenario of high food demand, we cannot ignore pollen or the work of pollinators.

As pollinating agents, bees, butterflies, birds, moths, beetles and even bats influence the stability and plant diversity of ecosystems and the yield (quantity and nutritional quality) of crops in agroecosystems.

Microgreens top the list of quick-growing vegetables because you harvest and eat them while they are still seedlings. As such, it only takes 2 weeks at most for the microgreens to be table-ready! There are over a dozen different microgreens to choose from and all can be easily grown on your kitchen counter with just a grow light! - Others less than 60 days.

https://www.feathersinthewoods.com/2020/03/vegetables-that-grow-quickly.html .----

https://themicrogardener.com/17-fast-growing-vegetables-for-impatient-gardeners/ .----

https://evergrowingfarm.com/2019/06/6-vegetable-you-can-grow-in-less-than-60-days/ .---

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There are many educational centers that currently use the school garden, not only as a teaching tool, but as a teaching strategy to awaken and motivate ecological awareness. It has extensive benefits and activities that can be done with students using this great transversal learning resource.

The school garden is an area for growing vegetables, fruits, ornamental or medicinal plants, among others. This space offers the opportunity for students to value a natural environment in which they can learn and promote a series of attitudes of coexistence, responsibility and collaboration, essential for the development of the child.

The use of a Logos International school garden as an educational resource has proven to have multiple benefits for our students, which not only contribute to the development of knowledge and skills, but also to the formation of values and attitudes that are essential in the development process.

Some of the benefits:

1) The school garden allows the integration of different areas of knowledge, functioning as a transversal and interdisciplinary axis in the different stages of education, from initial education where the child begins to interact in a unique way with the environment that surrounds him, where he actively participates in ecological and training processes.

2) Allows students to experience and interact in a unique way with the natural environment.

3) Promotes values of cooperation, patience, perseverance and responsibility in students.

4) Promotes the organization of time and space, creating skills to establish the correct time for watering plants, in addition to having to evaluate the square meters available for planting.

5) Develop motor skills through the use of farming tools and instruments.

6) It is a motivating tool to develop habits of care and environmental responsibility.

7) It allows you to know the nutritional value of fruits and foods, while promoting a balanced and healthy diet.

8) It can contribute to the teaching of mathematics, taking into account concepts such as: quantities, geometric shapes, areas, surfaces, distance, time, progressions, among others.

9) Promotes the participation of families directly in the school. For example, a family member contributing their experience in gardening and cultivation, or indirectly when it is done at home at the request of the students themselves.

10) It allows us to become aware of the usefulness of organic waste and how it can be used to make fertilizer.

11) It helps break the school routine, in a free space, full of physical and emotional activities.

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