Digging in the Dirt

Snack on It

Take a break from your hard work to enjoy a themed snack time.

n Serve dirt pudding, ants on a log or rainbow vegetable and fruit kabobs. You can also serve fruits and veggies in a creative way by cutting them up and serving them to resemble flowers.

n Use what you’ve grown! Plant a themed garden that will allow you to make foods using what you planted. Plant the herbs and veggies needed for salsa or pizza, then enjoy a themed dinner night and enjoy the fruits (pun intended) of your labor.

Visit a Garden

n Have a garden party with your neighbors and friends. Show off your beautiful blooms, and create recipes using the fruits and veggies grown in your yard. Serve flower-shaped cookies or cupcakes. Spread the love of gardening by sending everyone home with seed packets or seed papers; check out botanicalpaperworks.com for seed paper, seed paper confetti and seed bombs.

Metro Atlanta has so many green spaces that bloom beautifully during the season and make a fun family field trip.

n Serenbe’s gardens include a pollinator garden, an herb garden and a medicinal garden. On Saturdays, you can also tour Serenbe Farms, a certified organic farm with more than 300 varieties of vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits. serenbe.com n The Atlanta History Center has multiple grounds and gardens for exploring animals, plants and flowers. The Smith Farm represents the 1860s era with historic varieties of crops, an enslaved people’s garden, a kitchen garden, heirloom flowers, sheep, goats, chickens and turkeys. Other gardens include native plants, Asian plant collections, waterfalls and more. atlantahistorycenter.com n Explore the Wylde Center’s public greenspaces for woodland paths, meadows, flower gardens, a butterfly garden and more. wyldecenter.org n The Lou Glenn Children’s Garden at the Atlanta Botanical Garden features a charming Flower Bridge, a vegetable garden demonstrating the various stages of edibility, colorful flowers and a collection of honeybees. atlantabg.org n The State Botanical Garden of Georgia’s Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden is a learning environment with themed gardens, edible landscapes, handson garden plots and interpretive elements. botgarden.uga.edu n Check out your local farmers market for locally grown produce and to support community agriculture. botanicalpaperworks.com

Check out these gardening books for more ideas: n Presented by the North Fulton Master Gardeners, Little Diggers is a Family Gardening Series at the Sandy Springs Farmers Market. The program is held every third Saturday of the month. citysprings.com n “Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children” features 12 easy-to-implement ideas for themed gardens, activities, crafts and more. n Eric Carle’s “The Tiny Seed” comes with seeded paper to help you grow your own flowers. n For little ones who can’t manage heavy digging, check out “The No-Dig Children’s Gardening Book” for step-by-step processes of gardening projects.