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[cat]

When he was 4 my littlest was taken on a nursery school trip to a farm where they milked a cow and made ricotta with the milk, washed a pig and made friends with some new chicks. On another trip they went to see a wheat field, ground some flour and made their own bread.
It depends a lot on the teachers - others in the same school just stayed in the classroom all day
Local producers have been invited to the primary school too to talk about growing fruit and veg. What happened to mustard and cress seeds in English schools? It used to be part of the curriculum

[the.fee.fairy]

The things some people think are funny sometimes. One of my sisters has recently started moving to buying organic and gets all her meat and veg from the farmers' market now. Her eldest daughter (17), however, won't eat organic eggs. The reason? She's afraid she "might get a beak".

I'm sorry, i find that hilarious!!!!

cant' you tell her that that's more likely to happen with the GM battery farmed eggs, cos they have different DNA...??

I would..

[the.fee.fairy]

when i was a t school, we used to grow mustard and cress, and peas and beans (in jam jars with cotton wool so we could see the roots).

Or maybe that's not such a good idea....my radiator in the dining room is covered in jam jars with shoots in still...

[paradox]

The only thing i used to do at primary school on the radiators was melt wax crayons


My teachers used to go mad at me im glad i put my energy into less destructive thing nowadays

[Mandyz]

When I was in gradeschool we used to visit farms on field trips. In grade 2 we even raised chicks from eggs - then gave them to a chicken farmer.

Your story reminds me of a special TV episode by the chef Jamie Oliver in the UK. He was absolutely disgusted by the meal programs at UK schools and the fact that not only would children refuse to eat anything remotely healthy, but they couldn't even identify vegetables. That seemed unbelievable to me! But I saw the kids staring blank-faced at vegetables. Then he was doing some regular episodes in Italy, and decided to try a comparison with the meal programs there - which were phenomenal - all homemade healthy organic food - and the kids loved it. He tested very young children and they knew every vegetable he could throw at them (I didn't even know them all - but they weren't ones commonly grown/eaten here).

I wonder what he would find here in Ontario, Canada...

[littlebluefish]

At my school, we did trips to a farm, muck spreading, cow milking, chicken egg collecting, ...


But then, it was a Steiner school so..

[mrsflibble]

in school I was told that white currants don't exist. I knew they must so 'cos I'd eaten the ones grown by me and my gran.
I was also shouted at once for eating daisies and told I would die. Again by a teacher. I still eat daisies.

me and sophie have some tadpoles at the moment, and one frog. she calls them "dots" and "gog" (16 months old bless her heart). She's also the one to pick the herbs from our window planter when we're cooking. I'm trying to teach her what is edible and what isn't in friend's gardens and such at the moment, but also to ask me before eating anything. if i had a garden I'd have vegetables just to show her where they really come from. Woe is me, we live 2 floors up in a flat.