Fruits and vegetables and everything you need can be bought at the supermarket nowadays. Due to this convenience, kids hardly know where their food comes from, much less how to grow it. By teaching them how to grow their own vegetables, their interest in healthy food is sparked. It’s fun, they learn a lot and spend time in nature.
Every week the kids from this middle school in the Netherlands go to the vegetable garden with their teacher and a volunteer parent. At the vegetable garden they get taught how to plant seeds, get rid of weeds, how and how much to water the plants and the most fun part: how to harvest their own food.
This school in Utrecht in the Netherlands isn't the only school teaching their pupils how to grow their own food. More and more schools are learning that a connection with nature and all the benefits that come from growing your own food is important. It inspires the kids to eat healthier and may even inspire their parents to start a vegetable garden at home. And it has the important added benefit that spending time outside the classroom, helps kids concentrate better and longer.
Slowly, the education system is reforming for the better. With more time outside and more focus on the wellbeing of children.
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