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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]



I used to take a half gallon of cherry tomatoes to work where the 3-4 young women who worked with me would demolish them by 5 pm.  A time or two I took in strawberries and the same thing happened.   But where I work now, the owner and her mother don't like raw tomatoes and another employee doesn't like cherry tomatoes, and the other 3 don't seem interested.  I sure didn't have any trouble giving away Ayers pears last year!  So it varies.  But my experience verifies one comment, that children will eat fruit and leaves and veggies, especially outdoors if either encouraged or simply allowed.  Many parents who have lost all sense of adventure and especially any link to their own body's wants and needs will prevent or at least fail to encourage children to eat natural foods.  I think it was Dr. Jarvis, the famous Vermont dr who listed some 30 kinds of leaves, many of them tree leaves, eaten by local children who learned it from older children who probably learned it from native children.  Donna