Comments on: Following Your Child’s Lead: Learning About Edible Wild Foliage

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By: Eat Your Veggies, Kids! — Life As Mom

Eat Your Veggies, Kids! — Life As Mom

[…] been bok choy and sorrel. Truth be told, I’m usually the one who eats most of it. Me, and my wild foraging teenager. But, everybody tries it. They have to. I make them eat at least one bite every time I serve it. I […]

By: monica @ paper bridges

monica @ paper bridges

yeah! this is great! I love to see these non-traditional learning styles mentioned. thanks for the encouragement to keep doing as we do.

By: renee @ FIMBY

renee @ FIMBY

Loved this Jessica on several fronts.

Love the outdoors. Love herbs & edibles and Love letting my children pursue their interests.

By: Jill

Jill

My girls are 3 and although I had always planned to homeschool, I didn’t plan on beginning anything “formal” until they were about 5ish. But when my daughter, Serenity, looked at me three months ago and said “I want to do school Mommy” (she knows Mommy goes to work at school) I knew I couldn’t say no. Of course for that first lesson I pulled out some worksheets about colors and one about shapes. When I was done with the couple of pages I had picked out and a song or two I told the girls school was done. Serenity looked like she was going to cry and responded “No Mommy, what about the letters!” I assured her that the next school lesson would include letters, and we began our homeschool journey. Since then all of what we have done has been about what the girls are interested in. One of my favorite activities was visiting a butterfly preserve and then coming home from the library with lots of kiddie books about the butterfly life cycle. The extended family was floored that my 3 year olds can tell them about chrysalises!

By: Kate @ Modern Alternative Mama

Kate @ Modern Alternative Mama

We are just starting our homeschooling journey with our kids, who are ages 3.5 and 2 now. This is something we plan to do this summer/fall — forage for wild edibles. They love to eat chives out of the garden (I know, not wild) and they’re very into farms. My daughter (3.5) has asked repeatedly to “walk among the trees” so we will be doing that. I love the idea of taking home fresh herbs or other edible plants! My kids have learned to identify many of the plants growing around our house, too, including ones that are poisonous (they know the difference between strawberries we grow and ‘poison strawberries,’ which are wild and not edible, and they will avoid the wild ones). It’s just cool to see what they can learn when you follow their lead!

By: What We Learned About Edible Wild Foliage — Life As Mom

What We Learned About Edible Wild Foliage — Life As Mom

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer

Since my children were babies, we’ve had the center square of our parterre garden as the “safe zone” for toddler plant exploration. Everything was edible and had great texture. It quickly got them into the habit of paying attention to the world around them. Feeling, touching, tasting. They also knew right away that there were other things, like soap aloe, which were “just for the hummingbirds.” We need all kinds of plants around us because, although it might be yucky for a human, there is some other critter that it works for.

We’ve lost so much of what our grandparents knew as far as wild edibles and it is refreshing to see a resurgence of interest in this. The River Cottage Farm series from England also has wild edible info.

By: Christina Pilkington

Christina Pilkington

Since we’re unschoolers, our entire days a made up of following the kids’ interests! Sometimes it can be overwhelming as there is no such thing as “school hours” and the same learning that takes place at 10:00 in the morning takes place at 10:00 in the evening, too. But we love this lifestyle. I keep a notebook for each kid and throughout the day, I will write down questions they’ve asked, topics they’ve expressed an interest in, and places they’ve asked to go. Then I review the notebooks and look for books, games, travel opportunities and lots of other things to show them. Then we spend our days diving into whatever I or they have managed to dig up! I also spend a fair amount of time doing research and gathering together resources they haven’t expressed interest so far. They often get just as much excited about those resources or activities, too.