Healthy Foods
This orange root is high in vitamins and nutrients.
What are carrots?
A tool you would use to dig.
What is a shovel?
You can grow these in a garden and eating them helps you grow stronger.
What are healthy fruits and vegetables?
This is a place where people grow fruits and vegetables to be shared with the people that live around them.
(Hint: it's two words)
What is a community garden?
This green leaf makes great salads and is high in fiber and protein.
What is spinach?
A place in a garden where plants are grown.
(Hint: plants don't sleep but you might in one of these)
What is a bed?
When kids don't have access to healthy food it is difficult for them to pay attention to what they learn here.
These plants are leafy, provide seasoning and flavor to dishes, and we planted some for our community garden.
What are herbs?
This refreshing fruit is pink on the inside of a hard green shell. It's a great source of vitamin C.
What is watermelon?
This decayed organic matter is used to fertilize soil.
(hint: we have one of these in our gardens)
What is compost?
When you don't have access to healthy food your body can develop these.
What are health problems?
What is "grow through what you go through?"
You might cry while cutting these layered vegetables but eating them also provides you with fiber and vitamin C.
What is an onion?
This handy tool helps to bring one of the four things that a plant needs to grow when it's not raining.
What is a watering can?
This is when you don't have enough food to be healthy. A garden can help you grow cheap food to help with this.
What is food insecurity?
We have one of these in our garden to scare away birds and animals.
What is a scarecrow?
This red fruit is often confused with vegetables because it isn't very sweet.
What are tomatoes?
This tool helps you to prepare the ground to be planted by loosening the soil (which is calling tilling)
What is a hand tiller?
This is an area where people can't easily get healthy food. Having a garden in one of these can help people eat healthier.
What is a food desert?
This is the name of the salsa that we made with garden ingredients.
(Hint: it starts with a P)
What is pico de gallo?