Growing & Learning! We are excited to offer the year-round Seedlings Growing and Learning Enrichment Program, for children ages 3-5, beginning Fall 2021. This is a transitional healthy-lifestyle educational experience, perfect for children who are not ready for a structured classroom environment, but need to engage! These young children will benefit from an [...]
"HealthBarn USA's proprietary healthy lifestyle curricula offered through a unique collaboration with NJ's Ridgewood Parks and Recreation won top honors in "Excellence in Wellness Programming" at New Jersey Recreation and Park Association (NJRPA) Annual Awards Dinner in Atlantic City, NJ. The sold out Seasonal Healthy Lifestyle Celebrations developed by HealthBarn USA founder, Stacey Antine, MS, [...]
“Our teaching garden is completely taken care of by children, and it includes growing produce as well as composting and learning the skills to grow their own food at home,” says Stacey Antine, M.S., R.D.N, founder of Healthbarn USA. Healthbarn USA started with a 100-by-50-foot parcel of land that was covered with grass and had [...]
It's Time to Enjoy the Great Outdoors! It's super sunny and bright outside Planting potato eyes are cool! which means it's time to shut off the TV, to stop texting and to venture out of the backyard to get connected with trees, birds, worms and so much more! Explore open space right in your own state, county or [...]
Eager hands await more sorrel! Spring is in the Air, It's Garden Time -- FINALLY! At HealthBarn USA we are all about sharing important information about living a healthy-lifestyle, so you too can bring these exciting concepts home to your family! This month we are all about planting HealthBarn USA's organic vegetable garden [...]
Parsley growing in the garden (vegetable-gardening-online.com) PARSLEY Parsley is often thought of as a garnish, and it does make food look pretty, but it’s so much more than that! It adds flavor to all kinds of dishes, from veggie salads to herb dips to veggie broths. And it’s nutritious to boot! One half [...]
Tin Can Planters display creativity and grow herbs! A traditional garden may be outside, in the ground, but at HealthBarn USA, we love to get creative with planting! We’ve shared activities about making eggshell planters and newspaper planters, and now we wanted to show you how to make tin can planters. Place them [...]
GARLIC SCAPES Curly-q scapes at the market. Garlic scapes are one of those wonderful foods that somehow many people don’t know about at all! They’re sort of a happy side effect of growing garlic. Garlic plants have long, skinny leaves that shoot out above ground, as well as thick, curling stems called scapes. [...]
Bugs aren’t all so bad! We often think of bugs as being icky, creepy crawlers, but bugs actually do great things for people and the environment. When I first started HealthBarn USA in 2005, my gardener called me on my cell phone to tell me that we had a major problem in the garden. Clearly, [...]
POTATOES It’s time for planting potatoes at HealthBarn USA! Here in the tri-state area, lots of varieties are grown, from long and skinny fingerlings to Adirondack Blues. And as long as you’re not turning them into French fries, potatoes offer tons of nutritional value, differing slightly depending on the variety. One medium baked potato, with [...]