Gardening for kids

WHY TEACH AGRICULTURE/GARDENING TO KIDS?

• Learning the life cycle: kids can learn the cycle of the plants and animals in the farms, they can see the process of getting a new life from a seed, how the plants grow and produce food and how to finish the cycle of the plant's life and how to start again. If there is live stock they can learn about this life cycle in animals, too.
• Gardening teaches kids how to care for plants: proper care for plants is fundamental in rising quality food. Plants also need food, water and maintenance. It teaches kids to be aware and observant to the different plants needs.
• Gardening teaches kids where the food comes from?: from the store? from the fridge? No!, this answer never comes from a gardener kid, because gardening teaches kids how to grow food, what kind of fruits comes from trees and which ones comes from small plants, where the vegetables comes from and how to grow them, harvest them and how to store them after harvesting.
• Hard work = sweet rewards: gardening teaches kids that agriculture (rising crops and animals) can be hard, with a lot of tasks and sometimes stressful, but also very rewarding, at the end of the day when they realize what they have done and the importance of the tasks, and when the harvest comes, they can feel how rewarding is this process of raising their own food.
• Appreciation for food: your kids don't like vegetables? gardening may help about this. Gardening teaches kids to appreciate their food, after hours and days working in the garden growing plants and producing vegetables, food becomes a reward. Kids can realize that food comes from hard work and beautiful biologic processes and not just from the store, making them appreciate it more.
• Teaching life skills: if one day there's no food in the stores, that's not going to be an overwhelming situation for someone who grows up as a gardener. Gardening teaches kids how to grow their own food, these skills are for life, in the future they will have the knowledge and the experience to grow their own food successfully. Also, this experience creates a connection with the Earth, the environment, and creates consciousness about the importance of taking care of this planet and the life in it.
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Last updated May 20, 2022