Recognizing our weeds early and using the right gardening tools helps keep our minds healthy and our exploring new ideas with curiosity and excitement. 🍃 Calming Gardening Tools:  Deep breathing exercises, mindfulness Sharing what’s on our minds lightens the load and reminds us we’re never alone in our garden. Our gardening tools, whether they be deep breathing exercises, creative outlets, or moments of mindfulness They remind us that we have the power to turn our weeds into seeds (stress into growth), and obstacles

rooting for us on from day one, starting when she sketched our first fox on a scrap piece of paper (SEE picture of the barn from our family’s apple farm, a silhouette of the original Foxie (who was a cat), our SEEDs

Follow The Flower is a helpful 'gardening tool' to help take your mind off your weeds, as a class exercise Blog encourages gardeners of all ages to recognize their emotional challenges and transform them into seeds

Some of our favorites include: Weatherman by Eddie Benjamin, I Lived by One Republic, American Kids by encourage children and adults alike to identify their emotional obstacles and transform them into seeds

Our virtual #PullYourWeeds® SEL Workshops use gardening vocabulary to help kids identify strong emotions Press Play to take a tour and start spreading some seeds today!

Let's keep spreading these SEL seeds to help raise a new generation of emotionally empowered kids!

skills, growth mindset tools, self-empowerment, confidence building, conflict resolution skills and mindfulness and seeds and why it’s so important to #pullyourweeds (with visual aids/media) -Introduce students to a mindfulness activity (aka a gardening tool) -A guided drawing of our signature fox with the illustrator For booking and pricing information please send an email to flowers@youareagardener.com. Plant some seeds at your school today and contact us at flowers@youareagardener.com!

Kids need to concentrate on the task at hand and follow instructions carefully. Decorating birdhouses with kids can be a relaxing and fun activity that helps take their minds off their 'weeds' and redirects their thoughts to the present moment. We would love to see your photos! Scroll down to collect your Gardening Tool Badge! encourage children and adults alike to identify their emotional obstacles and transform them into seeds

school's garden (the students planted all the tulips) and was an opportunity to highlight all the SEL seeds To see children, families and teachers all coming together with our book and programs as the highlight

Every time we see articles like this in the news (scroll down), we feel like the Who's from Horton Hears The younger we can connect with kids and empower them with tools and skills to help them feel confident , You Are a Gardener® and our #PullYourWeeds® SEL Workshops/Programs are all rooted in planting the seeds Seuss Now more than ever children need tools to help them navigate big and uncomfortable emotions. Seuss --> Schedule a phone call or Zoom meeting with our gardening team today by sending an email to

This activity is a delightful way to sow some powerful seeds for the year ahead. Creating vision boards is a wonderful mindfulness activity for gardeners of all ages because it encourages concentration and presence, drawing gardeners into the present moment and away from everyday distractions (weeds serve as a visual reminder of planting our positive intentions, making the pursuit of goals a more mindful

Expressing creativity through crafts can help reduce our stress and anxiety (our weeds), promoting a initiative, we encourage children and adults alike to identify emotional obstacles and transform them into seeds