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Parenting in the Green Revolution
I’m sitting on my balcony table presently, enjoying the sun and watching my younger daughter, just 7 years old, tending to our compact little vegetable garden, her little fingers deftly plucking ripe tomatoes now, having just gently watered the basil. She speaks to her plants, taking pride in her obvious relationships with them. I’d call it her urban farming skills, but for her its a more holistic thing.
My eldest, meanwhile, already a teenager, is experimenting with our compost. We have both worms and a more traditional compost barrel, which he’s been tasked with taking care of, ensuring we can reduce our waste and also feed our crops.
As I’ve often joked to my husband in recent times: gone are the days when they played with action figures and board games. No, today, their toys are seeds, soil, and sustainable practices. Their playgrounds our garden and community green spaces.
Of course our household is far from unique in this shift isn’t. We are linked to greater movements that we see happening across cities worldwide today, with a growing emphasis on sustainable living. We see it in terms of the urban gardens now, which have become remarkably common place, and the zero-waste households. Community composting too, has become something of a buzzword where we live, where such has become much more of a way of life, than what any of us…
