You have got to watch this 2 minute video with your children which shows a child’s experiment with 3 very different sweet potatoes.
One sweet potato was conventionally grown.
One sweet potato was organic from the supermarket.
One sweet potato was organic from a local market.
If your child is hearing from friends at school that “organic doesn’t matter” or some foolish talk of this nature, this video will quickly show that organic but also LOCAL is the way to go when it comes to produce!
Our children are getting it! I am so encouraged when I see bright, inquisitive children like this showing the whole world how the simple choice of what you put in your mouth can quite literally determine the course of your entire life.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Unfortunately, there is no one around where I live who sells organic sweet potatoes. Living in the cold north makes them scarce. They are also one of the few veggies my daughter will actually eat, but I stopped buying them after I watched this video.
Had to share this! Can’t wait to find locally grown sweet potatoes at the winter market!
Wow! Where can I find organic ones besides Chucks?
I don’t recall seeing them at our farmers market in the summer. I’d like to try it just to grow some sweet potato vine to put in a planter. It’s pretty.
who said we aren’t getting it? Every single person I know (and that’s quite a few – I’ve been on this Earth 38 years), GETS IT. That doesn’t mean that they are going to stop buying bargains, join me in kibbutzim, and give up on eating what they want, when they want year round.
I GET a great many things, that doesn’t mean I’m going to act on it. True – i grow my own veggies and fruits, have a CSA, buy from farmers etc. But my husband hates raw milk so I buy him organic whole milk from the store. I hate making bread every week – so I buy it most of the time.
Mainstream people get the message. They don’t CARE…honestly – Wal-Mart/Costco sells carrots for 87c lb and farmers market is $5 – even people who make $250K a year will buy it from Costco (or their housekeepers will). it isn’t about getting it, it’s about caring. those are two different things.
I still know plenty of people who don’t get it and think buying organic is a waste of money and there is no difference in the produce. A friend was telling me yesterday that her daughter in middle school was told by her friends that organic doesn’t matter and is no better than regular produce.
The label “organic” really does not matter. Dealing with a farmer who grows truly organic is a whole different ball game. You can see the difference between “organic” and “organic” in the video.
This is my husband’s response to concept of eating raw, local, safe foods. Even if a person can afford it, he or she has to care enough to go to the effort. Most people don’t. Most people also think that the government, their doctors, and scientists in the news or on TV are telling them the most up-to-date, correct information on what they eat.
I’m just glad that we “get it” AND care and that we can teach our children the same and share the information with our friends. That’s the best most of us can do.
Yee Haw, Christine! I agree. People are sheeple about the media and anyone who has some amount of “authority”. It’s garbage and WE know it, but *most* don’t know and/or don’t care. People are lazy if they aren’t particularly motivated to make changes. I’ve found people who have to do their own research (after being somewhat enlightened) come to the conclusion to try to eat better quality foods more quickly than people who are force-fed the information.
And really? A 3 year old is aware of this??? I really think that’s sorta over the top. Kids need to be kids for a while and certainly at 3 they don’t need to be worried about their foods. I mean, isn’t that why they have parents? I think it’s great that school-aged kids are aware, but 3? Sheesh. But that’s just me . . .
Kids get it. Give them the credit they deserve. 🙂
My 17 month old took my wallet out of my purse, opened my wallet and handed the clerk the red card that I use to buy stuff from the spanish market in my town last week. If they can spend money on food, not too early IMO.
A lady at church gave my 17 month old a crappy store bought sugar laced cookie (she asked me and I didn’t want to be ungracious since he was crying and she was trying to be helpful). She was surprised that at the mention of cookie, he didn’t come running. It was his first cookie. He didn’t look all that pleased eating it either. When she walked away I got my food bag from in the church and tried to trade him that cookie for some raw cheese… no go.
I tried again with some of my home made sourdough bread and he traded me that crap cookie with a smile… at 17 months he knows what’s good and if they don’t know by 3 it’s kinda late IMO.
Wow, what a wonderful little girl! Very powerful experiment! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for posting!
I love me some organic, local sweet potatos, smothered in coconut oil, sea salt, and raw local butter, of course! 😀
Wow! That was an amazing experiment! Thank you for sharing!
Awesome!
I read somewhere that if you can only afford certain organics, and not all, make your root veggies organic for sure because they soak up the most chemicals. I don’t know how valid that is, but makes enough sense for me to want to make sure my root veggies are organic and local 😉
Interesting point, Allison.
wow. I’ll be showing this to my kids after school, too. Thanks for shaping our family’s nutrition.