It makes it all worth while when your kids are happy to forage in the garden to find a healthy snack, hanging on a tree. This is a photo of my two year old Quinn helping himself to a ripe Tamarillo. I don't know too many other kids who can pick a ripe tamarillo off a tree and actually eat it!! I have designed a 'snack track' which snakes around a small part of my urban orchard. The theory is the kids can wonder around it and feast on healthy food such as blueberries, cherry tomatoes, cocktail kiwifruit, thorn- less blackberries and espaliered apple and pear trees.
Don't get me wrong this is not 'utopia', my kids still gorge themselves on chips, lollies and biscuits if they get the chance, but they can recognise ripe fruit and berries growing on a vine. Click here for more ideas on gardening wih kids
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