Re: Re: Convincing others!

[Guest guest]

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That's both a sad and an inspirational story. You're like the Pied Piper of

Veggieland, LOL! I really don't get that girl's mother not buying veggies

for her - that's a travesty! Glad you're there to educate and

'nutritionate'(LOL)!! I know that what the children/now teens derived from

your 'show and tells' will resonate with them the rest of their lives and

hopefully, set the stage for healthy lifestyle when they have their own

children.

Thea

From: sproutpeople [mailto:sproutpeople ] On

Behalf Of

Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 11:10 AM

To: sproutpeople

Subject: Re: Convincing others!

My house has always been the hang out place for my daughter's friends, and

we often have a houseful. When they were younger (about 7), one day I set

out a platter of freshly picked veggies and homemade dip. Most of the kids

had been coming here for years, but we had a new little girl in the

group-the others dove right in to the platter, being quite used to such

things. The new girl leaned down and pointed to a baby carrot and asked what

it was! Then pointed to celery and grape tomatoes and asked what THEY were!

She didn't want to try any at first-said she had never had any of them, but

once she got started, she couldn't stop-especially with the carrots. Now, 10

years later, she is still a regular at our house, and DIVES into the sprouts

and veggies when she is here (which is very often) She said she has asked

her mother many times to buy her veggies at the store, but her mother won't

hear of it! Over the years, this little girl has learned about gardening

from me, and often helps, loving to pluck stuff straight from the ground and

munch happily. They all go CRAZY over my fresh berry sorbet that I make in

my Vitamix...using nothing but fresh berries from the garden. I feel quite

certain the only time any of these kids get true nutrition is when they are

here...probably why they keep coming back, lol.

[Guest guest]

Would love to see photos of your garden if you can figure out how to put them on

line.  I am putting out a bit of a garden this year.  Haven't done anything but

flowers in a long, long time and have left that to my husband.  We have 3

blueberry plants, 12 strawberry plants and one chive out there this year thus

far.  I just planted 2 containers with tomatoes, pepper and carrots. Have no

idea if they are complimentary or not.  Then I planted some corn with beans

around them (white) and then planted one yellow squash on one end and a zucchini

on the other end.  We watered it and filled up the reervoir under it.  I left it

near the driveway, but will take it behind the mobile home and put at one side

of the patio back there witht he trellis closest to the neighbor.  We'll make it

a little privacy corner if it works.  We have the strawberries on the other

side.    This is not the best  time of year here for planting vegetables as they

ae winter

plants here starting about September for planting, maybe a bit earlier to

germinate seeds.   I still have 8 tomato trees but will save them for fall.  The

one tree I have has a chive in it but the bottomof the bag is about broken off. 

I am expecting Topsy Turvey to send me a new bag for it.  Then I will plant that

one.  I did have a cou ple of tomatoes out last year and one did okay (grape

tomato) but the other, a regular tomato did nothing.  Ihave leaf lettuces, herbs

and hopefully some flowers in Aerogardens in my sunroom.  I am thinking the

flowers may have too much light as it is supposed to have some dark and the

light from the other Aerogardens puts some light on them and the sun goes down

and the planters stay on for awhile yet.  We  have plants in most of the little

cones but the flowers aren't doing very well.  I did open a few and sprtized

them with water and hope that helps with some of them.  I just hope to get a few

salads off

there and I plan to plant tomatoes with the next one I get.  I am going to put

up a shelving unit for them and for sprouts, sort of like Melody did.

 

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:16 PM

Subject: Re: Re: Convincing others!

That's one reason I joined this group: not to feel so alone when making

healthier choices for my family.

My girls are 7 & 6, and have always eaten stuff straight outta the garden.

Now they're eating the sprouted almonds and fermented goodies I make, even

though the oldest is one picky eater!

My wife works in an urban Seattle school. She brings fresh veggies and

fruit routinely, and all too often the students are fascinated by the

strange food. What? It didn't come in a crinkly bag or tube? It isn't

bright orange or leave your fingers coated with 'whatever' that stuff is?

She ends up giving most of her lunch and snacks away.

So, we're farming too, and donating half our food to local groups. 1,000

lbs last year, and more this year. I really  hope we keep making fresh food

impressions on families! Especially in the summertime, many families

struggle to get enough HEALTHY calories in front of their kids: no school

lunch programs in summer...

Peace all.

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> It is good to hear that some kids are being exposed to good healthy food.

> Our society has moved so far from what was considered normal in the past.

> Now days if you cook, garden, grow sprouts, make your kids do chores (child

> abuse!) you are considered very abnormal. There is a YouTube video that is

> well worth watching even though it is about an hour long called " Folks,

> This ain't normal! " by rancher Salatin. http://bit.ly/JgNCa2

> Lee

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> > My house has always been the hang out place for my daughter's friends,

> and we often have a houseful. When they were younger (about 7), one day I

> set out a platter of freshly picked veggies and homemade dip. Most of the

> kids had been coming here for years, but we had a new little girl in the

> group-the others dove right in to the platter, being quite used to such

> things. The new girl leaned down and pointed to a baby carrot and asked

> what it was! Then pointed to celery and grape tomatoes and asked what THEY

> were! She didn't want to try any at first-said she had never had any of

> them, but once she got started, she couldn't stop-especially with the

> carrots. Now, 10 years later, she is still a regular at our house, and

> DIVES into the sprouts and veggies when she is here (which is very often)

> She said she has asked her mother many times to buy her veggies at the

> store, but her mother won't hear of it! Over the years, this little girl

> has learned about gardening from me, and often helps, loving to pluck stuff

> straight from the ground and munch happily. They all go CRAZY over my fresh

> berry sorbet that I make in my Vitamix...using nothing but fresh berries

> from the garden. I feel quite certain the only time any of these kids get

> true nutrition is when they are here...probably why they keep coming back,

> lol.

>

>

[Guest guest]

 A woman in one of my social networks said she sent healthy things to school

like veggies and yogurt and rice and an egg and the lunchroom coordinator made

the kid buy her a sandwich as she said her lunch wasn't healthy because she

didn't have meat.  So the kid had to get some kind of a sandwich and the mother

was charged for the lunch.  She was going to go to school about it.  This same

lunchroom person had done something like this before and had been told once. 

Her lunch, she said, was healthier than the one the school had.  To that

lunchroom person, a sandwich was lunch.  Mother sent a lunch as she didn't want

the kid eating what was at school.

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 3:20 PM

Subject: Re: Convincing others!

 

Oliver came here the United States and tried to campaign against school

lunches-you wouldn't BELIEVE the hostility he was met with by the authorities

and school system! They acted like he was some crazed nut who wanted to poison

the children with healthy food! The series is called FOOD REVOLUTION and can be

seen online-I think on ABC...unreal how people's concept of food is soooo

skewed!

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> > > My house has always been the hang out place for my daughter's friends, and

we often have a houseful.I feel quite certain the only time any of these kids

get true nutrition is when they are here...probably why they keep coming back,

lol.

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