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How to Teach Kids to Love Their Veggies
Posted by: | CommentsWe all love to see our kids eating veggies but I have to say that I have been thrilled to see the transformation of our kids, at Semillas de Amor since we began the vegetable garden. We have lots of different types of lettuce. The kids typically don’t like salad but with all our new tasting lettuce they are loving their salads and the journeys into the garden to munch on freshly picked lettuce leaves, giant radishes and carrots.
Our slideshow shows the kids in the garden yesterday, as well as time outside with the dogs. The kids decided that Bodhi had laid some eggs, thus the avocados in a circle and then one hatched, the dinosaur (sadly without a head which I am sure on of the dog ate). It is wonderful for the kids to be outside and to spend their time in creative play.
However, the down side for me is that it can be nearly impossible for me to get my fundraising job done because it is so much more fun to be with the kids.
Enjoy the photos of the children.
Thank you to everyone who has donated to keep our kids fed and our staff paid. We are very, very grateful. Savesemillas
Our Green, Green Garden
Posted by: | CommentsWelcome to our beautiful garden filled with lettuces, broccoli, tomatoes, herbs, strawberries, sunflowers, carrots and radishes. Our tomatoes are carefully covered with a plastic green house or they won’t survive the rainy season. Everything else does well outside. We have planted many of our plants from seeds and some from starters we have purchased. We are all very excited about the tomato crop coming in. Our fruit trees were planted last year so they had at least one rainy season to take root and now have their second. We have fruit on all of our baby trees!!
Our future plans include a worm composting program for our fertilizer and a small green house to begin starting all of our new plants. The children will be included in all of what we do. They will really learn where their food comes from by planting a seed, watching it grow, picking the veggie, cooking it and then composting what is left over.
Free Range Kids
Posted by: | CommentsTrying to get my “real” work done while I am at the children’s village is nearly impossible. My real work is mainly trying to find donations to keep the kids fed, clothed and educated. No easy task. However, watching the kids playing, outside my office window, makes me want to be out there with them. So most fundraising is done when I am home and while at the children’s village I get to play. I couldn’t resist bringing my camera while I hung out with the kids.
There are photos of Ruby. Ruby is our new dog. We found Ruby running in the streets, almost hit by cars, and just terrified. She was living outside, near the entrance to the farm where I live for a few weeks. The farm manager told the security to get rid of her. The security guards told me, knowing that I would probably not say no, so she became our new dog. We let her settle in at our house before bringing her to meet the kids at the children’s village. Ruby was a terrified dog and so afraid of everyone. This has been her first week at the children’s village, spending the day, and has done well. I explained to the kids that someone had been very mean to her, which made her very afraid of people, and then threw her out. Sadly most of our kids can relate. I have been so amazed by how kind the kids are to Ruby. They move slowly with her, know that she is nervous and pet her gently. The children have learned a true lesson in kindness.
We also sampled lettuce from our garden today. We have lots of different kinds of lettuce and all ready to eat. I didn’t realize, when I bought the lettuce plants, that what I had purchased was not what most people plant here. No iceberg lettuce in the garden, but lots of baby lettuce, the fancy stuff you guys in the States pay a small fortune for. Lucky for our kids we can grow our veggies cheaply and have fresh vegetables every day. Our next food move will be eggs, but have to build the chicken coop first and then buy some chickens.
Enjoy the kids!
