If your youngster likes to help out in the kitchen, a fun new work table teaches kids that growing and preparing your own food can be fun and mess-free! Eat Play Grow is the latest design in educational children’s furniture from innovator Ruth Vatcher. The table features an herb sprouting tray, chopping board, watering pot, and a felt storage system. Designed to teach children how to grow and prepare their own food, it also promotes healthy living and eating habits.

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Did you know you can power a clock with dirt? Dutch designer Marieke Staps has figured out a way to grow time, instead of killing it. Her soil-powered bio-clock (is that like a biological clock?), showcased at Dutch Design Week in 2008 and most recently at Dwell on Design‘s Kitchen Ecology Show last week, keeps time by plugging into mud!

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