Kids Meals

Parents ask “Should we make a separate meal for the kids?” Many households and restaurants create special kids meals to keep kids from whining during dinner. However, these processed meals are filled with too much fat, salt, sugar, and chemicals. It certainly is not fun to listen to a toddler having a tantrum about a…

Kids eat their Veggies

Parents ask “How can I get my kids to eat their veggies?” When parents enjoy eating their veggies and savor every bite with “mmm” and “ahh”, they are being the example for their kids to follow. Families can consciously make sure they have organic fruits and veggies at every meal. When kids are involved in…

Kids Garden Sanctuary

The healing power of gardening can relieve kids’ daily school stress and even restore the broken lives of kids and teens that have suffered from traumas. Kids with an organic backyard veggie garden not only have access to fresh food, but also benefit from a sanctuary that restores them mentally, physically, and emotionally. Even in…

Kids Infused Water

Pure water is delicious, refreshing and healing. Kids need to drink eight cups of pure water a day, instead of soft drinks, sweetened juices, and sodas, to rid their bodies of toxins and keep their systems running smoothly. Pediatricians say just switching water for soda or other sugary drinks is a major health victory for…

Kids Healthy Tea Party

A cup of tea as an afternoon energizing and relaxing break has been enjoyed world wide since Emperor Shen Nong of China included it in his garden five thousand years ago. The bioactive compounds in a cup of green, black, white, or oolong tea impact every cell in the body to help improve the body’s…

Kids Beet Tattoos

Beets come in a variety of colors and the different colored beet juice can temporarily stain the skin, red, golden yellow, pink, and purple. Kids enjoy making and wearing temporary tattoos. Wash a fresh beet, slice off the root end half, put the beet in a shallow pan of water with the greens sticking upward,…

Kids love Bread

White bread is an industrial processed food, packed with over two dozen ingredients and chemical additives, that has played an important role in politics, diet, culture, race, class, immigration, and gender. In early 20th Century America, it was widely believed that only savage peoples and unwashed immigrants ate dense, dark bread. White bread is the…

Kids Food is Medicine

Food can cure most chronic diseases. Eating the right food can cure depression, diabetes, arthritis, allergies, headaches, heart disease, dementia, irritable bowel, thyroid disorders, skin problems, and more. Government policies dictate which foods are grown, how they are marketed, and how they’re grown and processed. Instead of eating the least beneficial, but most popular vegetables,…

Kids visit the Farm

Kids and their families can visit McGrath Organic Farm in Camarillo the first Saturday of every month, 10 am – 12pm, and volunteer in the fields for the Abundant Table CSA to learn about ecological justice, environment stewardship, and farm education. The Abundant Table offers several innovative, farm based programs for public schools and school-aged…

Kids Organic Superfoods

Superfoods are healthy foods that are nutrient dense, jam packed with vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, healthy fats, and phytonutrients. When kids eat a rainbow of brightly colored organic fruits and veggies that they have grown in their raised bed veggie garden, they obtain a broad variety of nutrients as each vivid color is a different…