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Getting Back to YOUR ROOTS

You don’t have to be a magician for a kid in your life to think you are. Just dig up a potato or pull a carrot from the ground and watch their eyes widen in wonder. Witnessing a familiar vegetable reveal itself from under the soil is one of the earliest memories many of us have in the garden, because it makes such an impression. Years go by and we forget this magic when we go back to buying potatoes at the grocery store because they’re just so cheap and we’ve forgotten the thrill of digging your own. Adulthood can be too practical that way.

That’s why it is important to try a new twist on your favourite vegetables. Not only does growing your own yield fresher, healthier and more environmentally

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