Memories of childhood planting, after garden preparation takes one a lot further than allowing children to only bury themselves behind computer equipment.
It is good to see many parents here in Hive do take the children and teach them, need not be all day just a couple of hours in the dirt I believe is healthy, soil is not dirty it is nourishing. Starting a worm farm another way in teaching, media preaches going green but little is taught on how to.
It is wonderful to have kids connecting with nature and learning a survival skill that may keep them from ever having to know hunger.
It's just getting them to disconnect from cyberspace - once you get them hooked into working with the earth and all the wonderment of nature, experiencing that miracle of a seed growing into a food producing plant, then you can let Mother Nature take it from there.
I feel very fortunate that I had a love of nature instilled in me at an early age and Kudos to all the folks here on Hive and elsewhere that are taking that time to do that with there children, get them out in nature and passing on skills like gardening
We were taught growing up, where we live the coastal conditions never worked even carting in loads of compost, I eventually gave up.
Currently planning a raised garden (I saw recently on an Australian show), I know they are grown up but as you said learning how to grow your own really does help. Now winter is coming time to start with walled project using recycled glass bottles. 😉