Do you know what this is?
So, one day I picked up Mia from school and she was chattering away in the backseat about seeds and growing and gardening and planting and watering and I admit, I didn’t quite catch it all. But when she ended with “…and I can be a farmer, OK?” I just agreed and kept driving. I didn’t see the seed she clutched in her little hand and honestly, I had completely forgotten about the conversation by the time we made it home. But, as soon as we pulled up, Mia jumped out of the car and popped the seed in a flower pot near the door (that already had flowers in it!) before I even knew what was happening. Then she announced that she was going to sit here and watch her plant grow. I hadn’t even seen what she put in the dirt. At this point I asked some probing questions to try and make a bit more sense of the situation. Apparently, they were served edamame (soy beans) at school and she saved one. I didn’t actually know if you could just pop an uneaten soy bean in the dirt and have anything grow, but I told her to try hard to water it every day and we’d see what might happen. Well, a few weeks later we were excited to see a tiny green plant pop up! She was proud beyond belief of her accomplishment. A few more weeks went by when she came running in from her daily plant watering (that child has a memory!) and told me it grew seeds and she wanted to eat them. I skeptically went out to look and sure enough, there they were. Perfect little edamame pods! We did pick one and cook it to taste but we left the rest in hopes that they’d grow a bit bigger. But there you have it– the story of a four year old farmer who grew and harvested a soybean plant all by herself. Oishii des!
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