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Eat fresh foods from your kitchen garden

Updated Generic C-IYCF Counselling Package, 2024 (UNICEF | 2024)
Eat fresh foods from your kitchen garden

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  • If you have a small plot of land or access to a community garden, create a kitchen garden where you can grow different vegetables for your family throughout the year, like amaranths, carrots, and dark-green leaves, such as spinach. These foods are important sources of vitamins, minerals and nutrients that you, your young children, and your family need to stay healthy.
  • If space allows, it is best to have at least three different kitchen gardens that you plant at different times of the year, taking advantage of the different growing seasons. This will allow you to harvest fresh vegetables regularly, throughout the year, for your family to enjoy.
  • Gardens can be created with simple tools and materials and minimal work. They will need to be weeded, watered and cared for regularly.
  • Fruits, such as banana, mango, papaya and citrus, are rich in vitamin A and C. If you have space and are able to grow fruit trees, they are a wonderful way to provide a variety of foods for your baby, and can be a financial investment for the future.
  • Kitchen gardens are also a way to engage young children in outdoor learning activities, teach them about nature and explain how food grows.

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