Growing your own food improves mental health, connects you to nature, and makes climate change real instead of abstract. Gardening works as meditation for kids and adults.
When you have a different relationship to food that you know that you can grow it, it just changes the psychological fear of starvation or hunger. And that is really powerful. It improves your nutrition security. It also improves your mental health. These kids come out to the classroom and it's outdoors and they're in nature. That is one of the greatest gifts of growing food. And I'll say that about cooking as well. The growing food, cooking, it's meditative. It is a beautiful way to spend some time. What our kids will do in recess, you know, you can go kick a ball around or you go to the playground. But if you want to read a book, you go to the garden. It also offers this calming environment. And then one of the other things that I believe is a sign of the times is it also opens your eyes to the weather volatility created by climate change. And years ago, you grow food, you pretty much know how the weather is. And nowadays, it's sad, but it's a powerful lesson how sudden, strange weather will destroy what you've been growing.
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