Tag: kid-friendly garden

If you want to get kids to actually eat their veggies, it helps if you get them invested in the process and care of the garden. I want my daughters to know where their food comes from, but growing a kid-friendly garden means more than just planting kid-friendly plants. If your kids see the backyard vegetable garden as "theirs," they are far more likely to embrace the products: happily eating radishes and arugula that they've grown on their own. Here are six tips—tested in our home—to get your kids to embrace gardening and become active agents in creating their own food.