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These are boom times for home gardening, but as many parents know, it isn't easy to get children interested and involved. One way, experts say, is to teach children how to cook what they help harvest from the family garden.
Occasionally, my telephone rings and it's a friend or relative, asking me if I know what to do with, say, fennel or jicama or brussels sprouts.
Gardening packs an educational punch: It can teach kids nutrition, biology, mathematics (sizing up rows and plot perimeters), social studies, geography and languages. Vegetable gardens help save money, encourage exercise, deliver fresh flavors to the kitchen and reduce the risks of buying tainted food.
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I remember the big, white hydrangeas -- we called them snowballs -- that grew at my Grandma Macy and Pa-Pa's farmhouse. And underneath the big oak tree at Gran's house, irises sprang up amid the jagged, gray rocks along the path leading to the porch.
Gardening packs an educational punch: It can teach nutrition, biology, mathematics (sizing up rows and plot perimeters), social studies, geography and languages. Vegetable gardens help save money, encourage exercise, deliver fresh flavors to the kitchen and reduce the risks of buying tainted food.
Don't just plant something '” teach children how to cook what they harvest
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