Child and Gardening Links & Resources

This list of useful child-related and gardening links have all been included because either we use them ourselves, or they look pretty good and may well be just what you are looking for!

Feel free to suggest a link which you feel deserves a mention - simply send us your suggestion!

Gardening Links	Kids Craft Links
Organic Links	Parenting Links
Environmental Links	Educational Links

Gardening Links

Royal Horticultural Society - Offers a searchable database for plants together with loads of useful gardening information and advice.

Even Greener - Environmentally friendly products for the home and garden, including composting, water butts, recycling and much more. Finally!

Jersey Plants Direct - straight from the floral island of Jersey to your door. This small company only delivers plants which are in top condition and has excellent monthly offers. Mainly flowers and roses, but also fruit trees and other plants.

Garden Launch Pad - This must be the ULTIMATE gardening links site, compliled by Jim collecting real content websites on just about every aspect of gardening you can possibly think of since 1995!

Savor the Rhubarb- Growing advice, recipies and just about everything you could ever wish to know about this very versatile plant!

InsideOut Gardening, London - Professional garden landscaping and maintenance services for London.

Landscaping Contracts - Useful contracts and forms for ensuring you and your contractor both know what you are agreeing to!

Kids Craft Links

Crafts for All Seasons - This website has some fun craft projects for your children for just about every season and occasion during the year, with clear photo instructions on how to complete them together with your kids.

Craft Site Directory- Your guide to arts and crafts on the Internet.

Organic Links

Organic Gardening Guru - A wonderfully concise and readable guide to organic gardening, including articles, tips, and easy to follow steps to going organic.

Garden Organic - The UK's leading organic growing charity, dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.

Garden Bird - Just about anything and everything to do with helping wild birds in the UK, including wild bird feed, bird houses, organic gardening products and much more. Free Garden Bird Feeding Guide.

Organic Gardening - Provides information on creating and maintaining a healthy, natural garden that is free of harmful chemicals.

Parenting Links

Early Learning Center - Quality inside and outdoor toys for young kids, designed to help them develop motor skills. Site includes useful articles and information too.

SafeTots - Not just an online shop for anything to do with Toddler and Child Safety, but a really useful resource too. Check out the articles and Q&A sections for ideas on kiddie-proofing your home and garden. Definitely recommended!

Mumsnet - An interactive meeting point for parents by parents with masses of information, tips, advice, reviews, local UK activities and much more.

Parenting Toddlers - Offers a vast store of practical advice and tips on parenting toddlers, from toddler discipline, safety, potty training, activities for toddlers and much more.

Consistent Parenting Advice - Discover the simple but profound difference clear, firm and consistent parenting will bring to your family. Enhance your children's happiness, self esteem and responsibility while increasing and developing your own emotional maturity as adults and parents.

Raising Twins - Advice, support, help and information for parents who are expecting twins, or who already have them and love them!

Grandparents' Cafe - A meeting and sharing place for all grandparents, including advice on long-distance grandparenting, and games and activities to do with your grandchildren.

Toddler Activities at Home - Are you looking for toddler learning activities, educational toys, birthday party ideas, toddler crafts and games or information on toddler development? You will find it all here!

Environmental Links

Even Greener - Environmentally friendly products for the home and garden, including composting, water butts, recycling and much more. Finally!

Outdoor Nature Child - This free site will help your child enter the natural world with games, activities, stories, books and wilderness skills. Offers safe and noncompetative activities that children love (US).

Healthy Kids Go Green - provides fun activities and important information for kids and parents who want to go green at school and home, including a kid's club where kids can share pictures and ideas. Parents will find valuable resources for making home the safest place in the world!

Bamboo Inspiration - A web site that promotes the versatility of bamboo and its uses around the world as an increasingly popular environmentally friendly renewable resource. Bamboo Inspiration provides resources and guides on bamboo plants, bamboo crafts, bamboo clothing and bedding, bamboo flooring and furniture, bamboo fishing rods, and many more bamboo products for home, garden, sport, and hobbies.

WWF (World Wildlife Fund) - Much more than just an organisation for saving endangered animal species, WWF also has information on nature conservation and living sustainably.

Kids Planet - A GREAT resource for kids to learn about wildlife and the environment in a fun, interactive methods (works best with IE).

Educational Links

BBC Schools - A free, quality site offering learning resources for school and home from ages 4 to 16 and beyond. Tied in with the UK National curriculum.

Brain Pop! - A truly amazing site with clear and animated information on just about every subject going. Designed for kids, but keeps adults entertained and educated just as easily!

The Home School - Free online magazine for home educating families to chat to others, exchange information and input comments and ideas on all aspects of home school life and education.

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