I am very excited to introduce you to Heather from Green Eggs & Goats today! Heather is a passionate advocate for the Farm to Table movement who is doing her best to produce as much of her family’s food as possible on their homestead! She takes pride in sharing the skills she’s learned with others, like in her Top 10 Homesteading Skills post and loves to share ways in which we can all save a bit of money around the homestead (and have some fun while we’re at it), no matter small or large our homesteads may be!
Please join me in welcoming Heather to this space! I trust you’ll enjoy getting to her as much as I have!
xoxo,
M
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Eating locally grown and sourced food is something many of us already know that we need to be doing. Local eating isn’t quite so easy when you are dealing with the pickiest of all eaters . . . children. I am fairly lucky that my children are (usually) very good eaters, and that they all enjoy fruits and vegetables. (Of course they all like DIFFERENT fruits and veggies, but I’ll take what I can get!) The best way I’ve found to raise good eaters is to get them involved with their food!
Here are some ways that we like to involve children in local eating!
- Plant a garden. Children are never more excited to eat local vegetables than they are when they grew them themselves!
- Take them to the farmer’s market. Let them explore and choose some new things to try! Maybe there are purple carrots or blue potatoes. Heirloom “ugly” tomatoes or some other treasure they can’t wait to sink their teeth into!
- Take them to visit a real farm. Let them see the way happy, healthy animals live their lives.
- Watch documentaries like Food Inc. with them and discuss why factory raised food is not the best choice.
- Get some chickens! Involve them in raising a flock of laying hens for fresh eggs and a whole lot of fun!
Don’t worry parents! Involving children with their food can be really fun! My kids are often involved in the planting, harvesting, gathering or shopping for their foods. The older ones are becoming good at finding the country and state of origin in the produce section of the regular supermarket. They help me decide what we should buy based on that information. (It’s a great way to reinforce geography too!) For us, it all goes back to doing things with your children, instead of for your children!
Heather and her family live in beautiful Remlap, Alabama. She is a wife, daughter, mother of 3, homeschooler, homesteader, egg gatherer, cow milker, goat chaser, and all around country girl! She is usually having way too much fun blogging about it all! You can check it out over at Green Eggs & Goats or on her facebook page!
