Gardening

Children learn the value of water through observing how plants manage every drop in winter. By watching leaves, roots, and stems adapt, they gain lessons in patience and careful resource use that stay with them long after gardening ends.

Winter gardens hold more potential than we often realise. With the right choices and a little care, growing cabbage at home can turn colder months into a season of fresh, nourishing harvests.

Seed starting becomes an everyday activity when simple materials are reused. Children take part in small tasks while learning how attention, time, and care shape healthy growth.

A dry little seed can unlock big curiosity in a child. This simple growing activity helps them watch a plant come alive day by day, building patience, observation skills and a gentle connection with the natural world.

Turn winter into a season of growth and learning by creating a vegetable garden with your children. This step-by-step guide shows how kids can plant, care for, and harvest vegetables, making gardening fun and educational.

These 10 simple, low-cost garden craft ideas can brighten your garden this winter. From painted pebble markers to diya planters, these easy DIYs add warmth, colour, and creativity to your green spaces.

Cow dung has been a versatile tool in rural India for centuries — used as fertiliser, pest repellent, fuel, and even building material. This feature explores six traditional practices that harness its full potential and shows how urban gardeners can adapt these eco-friendly, low-cost techniques for balconies, backyards, and community gardens.

Inspired by the Japanese art of Kokedama, Anjali started her own garden. And her amma transformed it by upcycling waste such as cans, bottles, tyres and old clothes!

With a few leftover vegetable scraps, here’s how children can grow their own mini-garden at home. These easy, low-cost activities teach them about nature, science, and sustainability while keeping them engaged and curious.

Look closely at any garden this winter, and you will find plants storing strength, slowing growth or bursting into bloom. These tiny shifts offer children a simple way to understand how nature adapts its rhythm through the cooler months.