After watching Super Size Me, my twelve year old only wants to eat farm to table foods. We'd like to take it a step further and really teach our kids about sustainable eating. If you have any suggestions, comments, experience, etc., please share.

Hi Trevor

I don't have any kid, but if you want to teach them about sustainable eating, here's what I'm thinking of:

Watching "Super Size Me" with them was one (good) thing, but I think kids would need some sort of unique experience: take yours to a farmer's market.

Your kid will have the chance to eat good samples, to actually taste good local food. I go every week to a farmer's market, and I get to eat delicious things (eg: apple butter, or spinach samosas...). It's a pleasant and unique experience that makes me want to go back there every week.

Even though food is a bit pricey, it's great to help local farmers, and going to this market has nothing to do with the boring, yet mandatory task to go to the overcrowded grocery stores.

Been meaning to write on this for awhile, sorry it's been a crazy couple of weeks. I think the main thing is to lead by example. Our 10 year old has basically been raised with this ethos, although we're not 100% obsessive about it. But after watching Food, Inc., my wife and I don't order meat when we go out anymore unless it's been sustainably raised. We don't force that on him though. And even here in Peoria, Illinois, there are a couple of restaurants that do offer that.

We also have the advantage that I barter a website with a local organic farm, with whom we are also friends. So we get to go out there and see the animals and food we eat. Our son has often fed the pigs and cows we later eat, and we discuss that.