Kids & Greens

Create a mouth-watering crisp green salad and set it on a plate before my children and they'll invariably push it to the very edges of the plate and ignore it.

Set out a tarp, one pot per kid, a big bucket of soil, seeds and water - and kids will spend an hour mixing up the soil and compost, poking seeds in, and sprinkling water to their hearts content! They'll delight in continuing to water, and watching daily for the first signs of life. They'll ooh and aah over the bright green shoots as they poke out of the dirt and run to check their progress every morning. Finally they'll watch carefully when you show them how to snap off a big juicy green leaf and take a bite and then try it for themselves. They'll marvel at how yummy it is and suddenly how much energy they have!

This was my experience planting spinach with a group of six 2-8 year olds. Yesterday each child harvested a couple leaves from the pots to add to our banana smoothie snack!