Cycle and learn.  Children enrolled in CYCLE Kids learn the answers to such mysteries as why bicycles stay up, how gears and chains multiply their energy when they pedal, and how to check air pressure in tires. In food science experiments, they make butter to learn about fat, and use magnets to learn about iron. They learn how to calculate their heart rates, how to eat for energy, and how to make healthy food choices.

CYCLE Kids students learn to respect the environment, both natural and man made. To ensure CYCLE Kids programs work with each schools particular environment, our staff meets with teachers, volunteers, and community organizations.
To learn more about how you can get CYCLE Kids in your neighborhood, or if you would like to help them help others, e-mail them at info@cyclekids.org, or visit them at www.cyclekids.org.

A diastasis is a condition in which the rectus abdominis (the outer most abdominal muscles) are separated due to a continuous forward forceful pressure.  The pressure could be caused by a growing uterus, a beer belly, or doing abdominal exercises incorrectly.  It is not gender specific.  Many people don't even know they have one.  Do you?

Do you know what Diastasis Recti is?  Do you know if you have one?

There's still time to run for kids with cancer this morning!

http://www.emeraldsociety5k.org/EmeraldSociety5k/Welcome.html

It is a beautiful 5K Walk/Run to benefit children with cancer. The course of the race starts in front of the Emerald Society and travels through the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, returning to Roslindale Village.

It starts at 11am this morning (Sunday, September 19th)
Start at the Emerald Society in Roslindale and end in the Arnold Arboretum.

Hope to see you there.

Save the date!  Life is good festival.

http://www.lifeisgood.com/festivals/2010-festivals-info/default.aspx

The festival is a two-day celebration of music and optimism, featuring three stages of diverse live music, hands-on games, interactive arts activities and the "Good Kids" zone — home to the top acts in kids entertainment. The Life is good Festival is a unique music event that every age group can enjoy.

100% of Life is good's profits from the Festival will go towards The Life is good Kids Foundation, helping kids overcome life-threatening challenges such as violence, illness and extreme poverty.

Good music, fun time, great cause.

Did you ever want to experience first hand working a farm?  Check out Farm School.

http://www.farmschool.org/programs.html

The Farm School
Sentinel Elm Farm
488 Moore Hill Road
Athol, MA 01331
978.249.9944
Children as well as adults can take part in learning what it takes to be stewards of the earth.

Multi-day residential school-year and summer programs for the over 1,500 young people and their teachers, a year-long program to train adults in practical sustainable agriculture, and an on-site one-room middle school.

Young people work the land and take home the cultural history, vital experience, and personal identity that farms nurture. Teachers work alongside their students and leave with new insights into their craft and children they teach. Adults learn to farm and carry essential knowledge from one community to the next.

Spartan Race
Saturday, August 28
Amesbury, MA

The Spartan Race is an international running series that revives the spirit of an adventurous age. The race is designed to test your resilience, strength, stamina and ability to laugh in the face of adversity. This unique 5k includes 12 crazy obstacles and will demand every ounce of your strength and ingenuity.

Check it out:
http://www.spartanrace.com/

1 out of 3 children are obese.  What can we do about it? 
It is not just about nutrition, kids need to be active too.

What do you think we can do to help the upcoming generations with their
nutrition and fitness?  Especially with the numerous cut backs with physical education and activities....


Listen to wbur program that aired this morning. 
http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/07/childhood-obesity

Check out the Trustees Reservations for family fun this summer.

These Trustees offer children's gardens and family programs:

Weir River Farm, Hingham, MA
75 acre working farm.  You can visit a barnyard, volunteer in the market garden or check out the beautiful flowers that border the farm.

Appleton Farms, Ipswich and Hamilton, MA
1,000 acre working farm includes a 500 members community supported agricultural program.  You can take part in the Farm Field School and perform real farm work such as planting and harvesting the fields or meet the cows.

Long Hill, Beverly, MA
114 acre hillside farm, known for its gardens.  There is an apple orchard, children's garden and agricultural fields as well as a two acre organic vegetable farm run by the Food Project.   Check out the children's gardening workshops.

Boston Natural Areas Network Community Gardens (BNAN)
BNAN owns 40 gardens and helps coordinate activities related to all of the Boston area community and school gardens.  Community gardens are communally cultivated and cared for.

Powisset Farm, Dover, MA
110 acre farm includes 250 member community supported agriculture program.  Pick your own gardens or enjoy a picnic on the farm.

So get into the soil with some hands on experiences at any of the local farms listed. Dig in. Plant a seed.  Get dirty.

Come to Belmont, MA and check out the Farmer's Market which opens today Until October 28th.
Every Thursday, 1.30pm - 7pm.

LocationThe municipal parking lot in Belmont Center, at the intersection of Cross St. & Channing Rd., behind the stores on Leonard St.

Getting thereThe Market is near the MBTA commuter train & bus stops in Belmont Center. If you drive, observe parking regulations on the street and in the lot.

DatesThe Market is open on Thursdays, starting June 10, 2010.

HoursSpring and summer hours: 1:30 PM to 7:00 PM.

 

WeatherWe're open rain or shine (but not in violent storms).

http://www.belmontfarmersmarket.org/location-hours.html