11/10/2025
Teaching my children the art of being in the present, working with nature, and enjoying the natural world around them is a huge priority to me.
Sharing the joys of making daisy chains with my children, lead my oldest to ask for a dandelion chain while at the park. Obviously I gladly obliged!
I intentionally take the time to share with my children about wild edibles and how they can help your body.
They're are learning the art of identification, how to safely identify wild edibles while out and about.
Now you might think, "Meg, this is a dandelion, they're so easy to identify!"
And I would agree with you, but I have seen dandelions misidentified by many people, and although the look alikes are not dangerous to consume, it opens the door to more complicated mistakes being made with other not so friendly plants.
My children know what they can and cannot eat while they're out, we talk all the time about avoiding roadside picking, areas likely to be sprayed with poison or even fertilizers.
It is absolutely my greatest joy to watch my two children potter around at home and hear my oldest guiding my youngest on the plants you can eat from moms " garden" ( more like a grass patch right now!).
She freely walks around and picks to eat dandelions, kale, miners lettuce, cauliflower leaves, cabbage leaves and broccoli leaves, plantain, sorrel and so many more random things!
She knows that if she gets stung by stinging nettle to find a dock leaf and rub it on.
It continues to surprise me how much information she has collected just from me rambling in the garden with her.
I adore my children and Im so excited to continue to pass down plant wisdom to them as they grow up.
To empower them to heal their own bodies in a world where that basic skill has been lost.
