We had a wonderful afternoon today. Some friends that we hadn’t seen since we moved last time came over for tea and the children got on fabulously as if they had been meeting up all along it was great.
And these friends have an allotment on the edge of town but they started growing food in their back garden about 3 years ago. N said that it’s amazing what children will eat when they’re picking it raw from their own garden. Her kids have been munching on raw green beans, cucumber and tomatoes that they have more or less grown themselves. Its fantastic, you’d never catch them eating those things at the dinner table on a day to day basis.
It reminded me that my son nearly ate tomatoes from the garden when we were living in France…..we weren’t so lucky then, but when he grew the obligatory cress on cotton wool in an egg cup that every school holiday club seems to do these days, he couldn’t wait to start eating the cress! Like kids cookingwhere they are just too tempted to miss trying their own culinary skills. It seems eating the food they have grown themselves is taking it all one step further. So if you want your kids to know about where food actually comes from (not all out of the supermarket you know) get right back to the beginning and start planting now. If you want tips on how to grow basic vegetables check back here soon as we’re trying to persuade N to start writing about that for us now too.
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