She's been learning since day 1 :) I was weeding my tomato and pepper plants with her in a snuggli the week after she was born!!! We still lived in town at the time but I did have a 10'x20' garden in the yard.
Her friend down the road also helps out and the friend's 3yo sister is also going to help this year. Their great-grandparents still farm and so they (sort of) know what they're doing.
I grew up in NYC and gals I went to HS with (30th reunion is this year) still tell me they can't imagine me being a "farmer."
Some people are born to work the soil, others are not.
For me, I could forget the world and see the promise that is in every seed.
Maybe we can interest more people into teaching the young to garden.
But to even suggest it, gets us lumped in with the tree sitters and that does no good.
I Think of Jeanette, who was staying with me in her 9th year, I had taken her to the doctor and not the other kids, so I suggested we stop at the nursery, she pitched a fit, but I stopped anyway.
As we were leaving she said to me “Aunt Ruth, I will go to the nursery with you anytime, I thought you were going to take me to nursery school”, so for one young lady, for an hour, there was another world, outside her own.
I can’t imagine living in town.