It is sad that the 'entitled generation' (that's what Dr. Phil called today's generation of kids the other day) doesn't know that you can plant the seed, etc. I have several friends with kids. We don't have kids. Usually (we didn't do it this year) we invite them out to help plant a plot of the garden (we set aside a section for the kids). Then in July and August, we invite them out again to pick what they planted. We usually send the kids home in May with a tomato plant, some bean plants, and an herb or two so the kids can put those in at home in and watch the plants grow. In March, we invite them out to help collect the maple sap and send them home with sap to evap. I've also invited these same kids to friends' farms where there are cows, pigs, chickens.