Plan Your Weekend: Edible Garden Fun for Families
 From digging in the Children’s Vegetable Garden to pretending to harvest fruits and vegetables at the Farm-to-Table play station, it’s easy for families to make a connection with food while having fun during The Edible Garden, which runs through October 17.
Explore nature in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
- Farm-to-Table play station inside the Bendheim Global Greenhouse
Tuesdays–Sundays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Kids can pretend to “harvest” fruits and vegetables and then use them to “cook” delicious recipes at the “cafe.”
- Flowers-to-Fruits
Tuesdays–Fridays, 1:30–5:30 p.m.;
Saturdays–Sundays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Children color paper pollinator puppets and go on a flower hunt, create a field notebook, and pot up a seedling to take home while they learn how flowers become fruits.
Gardening fun in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
- Children’s Vegetable Garden
Tuesdays–Sundays, 12–6 p.m.
Children connect with the food they eat by exploring whimsical gardens and plantings, including the Pizza Garden and Breakfast Bowl. Kids can hunt for squash-family plants such as cucumbers and gourds and see the new Pumpkin Patch!
- Dig, Plant, Grow!
Tuesdays–Sundays, 1:30–5:30 p.m.
Kids are encouraged to dig, weed, compost, plant, tend, and harvest in garden plots, with a different theme each month. Herbal Delights, Naturally is featured through July 30. Families go on an herb hike through the garden, cool down with an iced herbal tea, sample a healthful herbal snack, and pot up an herb to take home.
All proceeds of The Edible Garden benefit the Children’s Gardening program.
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Tags: children's gardening, family activities, Farm to Table
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