Featured meijer gardens Items
Stoneware Chicken Roaster

An attractive chicken roaster that cooks as good as it looks! And it's so easy to use - no culinary talent needed! It gently roasts chicken in its' own juices while added herbs and spices permeate. The stoneware distributes heat on all sides, allowing meat to cook evenly. Moisture is sealed in, leaving chicken so tender the meat easily falls off the bone... not to mention just how scrumptious it tastes! The roaster is also the perfect way to cook an array of other foods, including tender pot roast, turkey breast, cornish hens, or a vegetable medley. Handcrafted in the USA.

Price: 89.99

Celtic Knot Embossed Leather Journal

Bench-crafted one at a time, the leather journal cover is made from custom tanned quality cowhide deeply embossed with a bold celtic knot design. The journal is accented with a solid pewter button, which an attached rawhide cord loops around to securely fasten the journal. Inside is a replaceable 220-page hard-cover blank book of heavy bond acid-free pages, perfect for recording sketches, diaries, dreams, poetry, musings or your personal works of literature. Once full, the journal may be refilled with a new blank book, allowing the journal to be appreciated for a lifetime.

Price: 67.99

Dragonfly Pin

Artists Jim Mullan and Tori Rhoades are renowned for incorporating a variety of unique found objects alongside newly fabricated segments to create designs that are truly timeless. Their dragonfly pin is cast in brass and handpainted with a green patina finish on the wings and purple abdomen (tail). Each pin is adorned with amber glass gems, antique watch gears and a lovely brass heart inscribed with o's and x's (hugs and kisses). Handcrafted in Florida.

Price: 39.99

Sterling Silver Cuff Bracelet - 'You Are Very Special To Me'

Let her know how important she is with an unforgettable message! A trio of puffy hearts decorate the outside of this sterling silver cuff bracelet while the interior reveals the message 'You Are Very Special To Me'. Cuff bracelet is naturally adjustable to easily fit most wrist sizes. Handcrafted in the USA.

Price: 79.99

Copper Snail Garden Stake

With amusing wide eyes and curly antennae, this whimsical snail will be gladly welcomed in your garden or patio plants! Handcrafted in North Carolina, each snail is created entirely of copper with a beautifully aged patina and covered in a glossy UV-resistant coating. A 36" copper stake easily slips into the ground to keep him elevated above the plants.

Price: 41.99

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Benefits Of Gardening For Kids

Apparently, we can see how nature is treated these days. It is a sad thing to know that people do not pay attention so much anymore to the environmental problems. What can we do about this? It's as simple as starting with the children. It is good to see the children's involvement with environment-friendly activities. One such nature-loving activity that children could easily get their hands on is gardening. Why should you consider gardening for your children?

Here are the benefits that gardening could easily provide the children with:

1. Science

In planting, children are indirectly taught the wonders of science like the plant's life cycle and how human's intervention can break or make the environment. They can have a first hand experience on the miracle of life through a seed. This would definitely be a new and enjoyable experience for the kids.

2. Life

Watching a seed grow into a tree is just as wondrous as the conception to birth and growth of a child. In time, kids will learn to love their plants and appreciate the life in them. Gardening could actually help simulate how life should be treated -- it should be with care. The necessities to live will be emphasized to kids with the help of gardening - water, sunlight, air, soil. Those necessities could easily be corresponded to human necessities, i.e., water, shelter, air, food. By simply weeding out, one could educate how bad influences should be avoided to be able to live life smoothly.

3. Relaxation

Studies show that gardening can reduce stress because of its calming effect. This is applicable to any age group. More so, it stimulates all the five senses. Believe it or not, gardening may be used as therapy to children who have been abused or those who are members of broken homes. It helps build one's self-esteem.

4. Quality Time with the Family

You can forget about your stressful work life for a while be soothed by the lovely ambience in the garden. You can play and spend quality time with your children. You can talk while watering the plants or you can work quietly beside each other. The bottom line is, always do what you have to do, together with your kids. You might discover a lot of new things about your child while mingling with them in your garden.

Let kids become aware of their environment's needs. And one way to jumpstart that environmental education may be through gardening. It's hitting two birds with one stone -- teach them to respect life while you bond with them.

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Brad + Rebecca @ Frederik Meijer Gardens

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:13:42 -0700
Brad and Rebecca were married on June 14, 2008 at Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, MI. I met Brad and Rebecca almost a year ago and was excited about their waterfall wedding at the Gardens. Over the past year, Rebecca has been busy with medical school in Milwaukee and Brad busy working as a civil engineer. Rebecca was perhaps the most organized bride I've worked with. Just imagine, she arrived, went down to the bridal room where she, along with her bridesmaids, were ready in about 15 min

Meijer Gardens celebrates autumn with 3rd annual 'Colorfall' exhibition (MLive.com)

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:54:57 GMT
Already in progress, the third annual Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park's "ColorFall" exhibition, is an annual celebration devoted to the season of colorful change. Activities, which began Sept. 13, will continue through Oct. 31.

Weekend events in West Michigan - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:49:06 GMT

Weekend events in West Michigan
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com, MI - Oct 2, 2008
ColorFall, 9 am-5 pm today, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, 1000 East Beltline Ave. NE, ages 14-64 $12, age 65 and older $9, students with ID $9, ...