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
What a great way to show my children why organic food is so important!!
We saw this and did our own experiment to show that it is true! Now, we have started our garden (in pots on our patio). We also, have “regrown” food. The kids are having a blast with romaine lettuce, celery, bok choy, and purple potatoes. LOL.
It is great that they saw first hand, and explained everything to their father when he came home. Our Store bought organic didn’t grow or MONTHS! Makes you wonder.
DAMMIT so that’s were my queasyness and fatigue was coming from I bet when I ate a load sweet potatoes the other day….
What sucks is around where I live, I don’t have access or have VERY little access to organic/locally grown foods. It’s a real bummer…no fresh dairy, not many fresh veggies, and the starches around here are unsafe (since they’re all ‘conventional’)! What can I even do about this..
well I guess it’s amazing to find out about this, I’m really glad.
But…where will I get my sweet potatoes now? :/ They are one of my favorite foods ever!
beautiful little video…thanks 🙂
Scary!!
What is the difference between whole sale organic and health food store organic? I buy most organic produce from Bj’s Club because I can’t afford to shop from Wf:(
If neither is from a local source, then probably very little.
Another friend shared this on her post. Great video!
That’s interesting. In our school holidays here in New Zealand we went to visit a kumera farm. The kumera is stored over winter in large buildings that are temperature controled so that they grow the sprouts on them and this is what keeps them fresh, when they go to the supermarkets they put them through rollers to remove these sprouts, so even if they are not organic it is a relief to know they do not have this chemical put on them.
Maybe this explains why I’ve had an avocado seed in water for over a month without a single sprout either! I purchased it at Sam’s. I put it in the window and basically forgot how long it had been there until I stopped and figured out when I started it. Sad and scary!
GREAT video to show adults AND children! 🙂