Giveaway: Growums!!!

As I told you in a previous post, I will be posting some reviews of really fun products.  I am not really ready to post about Growums yet, but I just had to let you know what I'll be doing in the next few weeks!

Today, these showed up at my door:

When I left the Toy Expo, I was also given this:

Growums are themed garden kits, that have an interactive platform on Growums.com to teach children all about growing their own food, "from seed to harvest".  Cartoon characters represent each type of herb/veggie/fruit and really make gardening exciting for children!  I thought it would be neat to do an on-going post about these little gardens to help you get the full effect. Stay tuned!

The Giveaway:

Want to garden along with me? Growums is offering two of you the chance to win your own Growums Garden!

How to Win:

1. Mandatory: Leave a comment with your email address, telling us why you'd like to win one of these gardens.
2. Check out Growums' website.  Come back here and leave a comment, with your email address, and let us know what your favorite Growums kit is!
3. Become a fan of Growums on Facebook. Leave a comment here, with your email address in the comment, and tell me that you are now a fan.
4. Become a fan of Baby in the Kitchen on Facebook. Leave a comment here, with your email address in the comment, and tell me that you are now a fan.

This contest will run until Wednesday, May 11 at 8pm EST. The winner will be chosen by using the random number generator on random.org.  The winners will be emailed.  The winners will have 48 hours to respond to our email. After 48 hours, if there is no response, new winners will be chosen.

Prizes will ship directly from Growums.

Thank you to Growums for providing us with samples of the aforementioned gardens and for sponsoring the giveaway, I'm so psyched to test them out!

Free Gardening Kit for Kids!

I love the idea of getting children involved in gardening/farming from a very young age, so when I saw this, I knew I had to share with you guys!!!

If you have UPC codes from 2 Annie’s Homegrown products, you can request 

a free kids’ gardening kit.

The kit comes with veggie seeds and gardening gloves.

Thank you to Mama Cheaps for sharing this deal!

Earth Day Events @ Anthropologie

Anthropologie is offering FREE workshops on Earth Day!!!

From their facebook invite:
Come get your hands dirty at our container gardening workshop! Our resident green thumbs will be on hand, dispensing tips that'll keep your pots and planters looking lively all season.

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Thanks, Meredith!!!!

Home Farming

How cool!  I have grown my own vegetables for the last two years and I am border-line obsessed with it. I live in a townhouse community with a very small "yard/patio".  My space is extremely limited, but each year, I figure out some more ways to make it work. I have several shepherd hooks in the garden and this year am thinking of hanging a few Topsy Turvy gardens on them.

I am also considering doing some indoor gardening as well. Does anybody have any experience with these?


Or



My sister has much more space than I do and grows an impressive amount of veggies each year. This year, I proposed share-cropping! :)  I am going to help my sister & her family, both in the garden and financially with the start-up! YEA! I'm so excited! I'm over there at least once a week as is, so why not? I will keep you updated on our progress.

Check out these great links related to home gardening:

1. Triscuits' Home Farming Movement
2.Community Supported Agriculture
3. Urban Farming
4. Gardening Supplies
5. Gardening Supplies


6. Get free seeds!

Do you grow anything? What? How? Please do leave a comment and share! I can't wait to hear!