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    Home Β» Food For Our Brood Β» Food For Our Brood- Teaching Kids Where Food Comes From

    Food For Our Brood- Teaching Kids Where Food Comes From

    Published: Feb 12, 2013 Β· Modified: Mar 15, 2020 by Eric Samuelson

    This weekend was a fun one! We decided to take a break from the deep freeze here in Michigan and visit our local Conservatory. A Conservatory is a very large greenhouse with several different biomes on display. How does this relate to food you say? Let me tell you!

    We feel it is very important to teach our children where food comes from and how it grows. We plant our own garden every year and the children are involved in every part from choosing the seeds, sowing, weeding, watering and harvesting. The know that green beans are grown on a plant, not made by grocery stores. We pick strawberries, peaches, apples, and cherries every year in season. Our conservatory has several excellent examples of food we eat that we can not grow here in Michigan. Here are a few examples:

    Pineapple Growing

    Pineapples
    Chocolate
    Vanilla
    Black Pepper
    Agave
    Aloe
    Grapefruit
    Limes

    There were great opportunities for learning, and we involved all of our senses! We felt the smooth cacao pods, and the conservatory had some samples of what is made with cacao (cocoa powder, cocoa butter, cocoa nibs). We smelled the grapefruits, felt the pokey spines on the lime tree, saw the enormous agave plants. The kids really loved this little mini-vacation, and we did too. Another neat thing that came out of this was that Gracie was able to see bamboo growing. She has been learning about Panda bears during school and was so excited to see that there was a large black bamboo plant growing at the conservatory. She talked about grapefruits and bamboo all afternoon!

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