Category: Childcare

  • What to plant or sow in January

    Flowers: Sweetpea Pansies Broad beans Food: Fruit Bushes & Trees Onion Leek Rhubarb Winter Salad Leaves Radishes Peas For more garden inspiration come and join us

  • Life beyond the garden: The River Lea

    Life beyond the garden: The River Lea

    My home setting is a short stroll from the River Lea. The River Lea is a very important part of our village history. It’s how Wheathampstead came to be. After the ice age, the first human immigrants decided to settle here. They travelled from the north of the continent, then…

  • The nature of the child…

    The nature of the child…

    A reflection: When you discover your way of thinking in the thoughts of the pioneer of holistic early childhood education, you know you’re on the right path.  When we start with the child’s nature and create an environment based on the children within it, that’s when the magic happens—the interconnectedness…

  • Time to Sow, Sweetpea!

    Time to Sow, Sweetpea!

    The Sweetpea – the perfect plant to support biodiversity in your garden. 🐝 Originating from Sicily in the 1700s, it was recorded by a monk named Franciscus Cupani. 🤓They found their way to England not long after, and in the Victorian era, everyone fell in love with them; the rest…

  • Creative Play happens here!

    Creative Play happens here!

    At the bottom of a children’s garden is a treasure trove of opportunities, a catalyst for experimentation, to play and create with freedom and intrinsic self-expression… Recently, I have spent a lot of time critically evaluating the play I have witnessed in the garden since establishing Kinder Harmony in 2015,…