THE children's program for the summer holidays: the 1×1 of sustainability

An important area where you can sensitize children to sustainability is the kitchen and everything to do with food. Already in spring you can grow herbs and cress on the windowsill. And then it's off to the stove! First you look at the seasonal calendar: Which fruits and vegetables are ripe now? Depending on the season, you chop carrots, kohlrabi or cucumbers and stir in a dip from ours WOERLE cream cheese and other fresh herbs. Tip: Let the children taste the herbs and think about what goes with which food. Or you can make vegetable and cheese skewers together. Cut the courgettes, peppers and tomatoes into bite-sized pieces and drizzle with a marinade of olive oil, garlic, herbs, salt and pepper. Let stand for about 1 hour and then alternately with WOERLE Grossglockner or Mountain cheese made from hay milk layer on wooden skewers. Grill on the grill or in a pan for about 8 minutes.

Also, don't forget to teach the kids to always check the fridge and use the groceries that have already been bought. This way nothing has to be thrown away. Speaking of shopping: Your little ones can also learn a lot about sustainability here, and that doesn’t just include taking a cloth bag with them. In the supermarket you can ask about regional products at the cheese counter and have the pieces of cheese put in your own snack boxes. Or you play detective: How is the packaging labeled? What should I look out for when shopping? How do I recognize Heumilch cheese? Our new WOERLE packaging show transparently, for example, that animal welfare, species protection and sustainability are generally important to us. Another idea is to think about what goes in the snack box with the children. Does it make sense to buy your own "children's products" in miniature format, which usually contain a lot of sugar and generate packaging waste, or could you not instead fill a snack box with vegetable sticks, a cheese sandwich and some fruit?

The topic of sustainability is particularly noticeable in the garden. Why not plant a balcony box or create a raised bed together with the little ones? It is fascinating to see how tasty vegetables and fruits grow from small seeds or plants, and how much time and work it takes to get the cucumber or raspberry to end up on the plate. The sparkling eyes of the little ones when they taste the first home-grown radish - unforgettable! You could sow flowers and show how important bees and other insects are for biodiversity and the future of our food. Or you can visit a hay flower meadow and explain to the children how important it is for the cows to find different types of grass and herbs, because in the end the cheese simply tastes better. Or you create a flower strip in the garden together or build an insect hotel as a life raft? But what are all these flowers called anyway? If you go on a flower discovery tour with the children, you can use various apps on your cell phone. This is great fun for them and they learn which plants on the edge of the field or forest are edible and which are even poisonous. And how exciting it is to conjure up something delicious from the edible plants afterwards. This closes the circle again and the children understand that our food depends on an intact nature.

An exciting area for children is the topic of saving energy. By becoming energy detectives, they find out where precious resources are being wasted. A room too warm. The light that burns even though nobody is in the room. The open refrigerator door. The dripping faucet. The television that is on standby. Each of us can contribute to reducing energy consumption. An unusual project would be, for example, together the Load the fridge properly. Or you can make your own oilcloths (as an alternative to aluminum foil, which takes a lot of energy to produce). You will see: Sustainability is fun!