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Discover where your food comes from

| Isabella | |

From a strawberry you pick yourself to a cow producing milk. During the Dutch ‘Week of Our Food’, one question takes centre stage: do you actually know where your food comes from? For children, the answer is not always obvious. They often know food mainly from the supermarket. Yet behind every slice of bread, apple and glass of milk is a story. A story about soil, plants, animals and the people who work with them.

Why does food work so well?

According to IVN, an organisation for nature and environmental education in the Netherlands, a close connection with nature can also start at the dinner table. By sowing, harvesting, cooking and tasting for themselves, children discover how food grows and what it takes to produce it.

A school garden, food forest or visit to a farm shows children where their food begins. Along the way, they discover how plants grow, the role animals play and why healthy soil and biodiversity matter.

 

“ Ready to explore Friesland for yourself? ”

Fancy heading out and discovering it for yourself? Here are four great ways to explore with children where food from Friesland comes from.

1. Visit - a farm

What does a calf feel like? Where does milk come from? And how much work goes into growing a potato? On the farm, children can discover it for themselves. They meet animals up close and learn about the journey food takes. Here are a few places to visit together:

2. Pick your own - in a pick-your-own garden

What does a strawberry taste like when you’ve just picked it yourself? Grab a basket and discover together how fruit, herbs and flowers grow. The journey from plant to plate becomes something you can see, touch and taste. Here are a few places to explore:

3. Discover a food forest

A living place filled with edible plants, flowers, shrubs and trees. Wander through a food forest together, see what grows there and discover how food is part of a natural cycle. You can visit:

4. From grain - to bread

A loaf of bread begins long before it reaches your lunchbox. Step inside a grain mill, listen to the creaking wooden gears and smell the freshly ground flour. Here you can see with your own eyes how grain becomes the basis for bread, pancakes and biscuits.Take a look at:

Discovering nature can be simple. It can start with a handful of soil, an apple you picked yourself or a curious question on the farm.​

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