What made me most happy that Ruhaan loved the dinner and ate vegetables like zucchini, which he is not too fond of. It actually a great low-calorie pasta too! You can just make one-pot zucchini pasta as cooking time for zucchini noodles is very short as compared to wheat pasta. You just need to peel zucchini with a peeler to make flat noodles like pasta. This kind of unprocessed, vegan Zucchini pasta I made the first time. Here is our yummy dinner: Zucchini pasta, Tomato cucumber salad with mint, Sauteed kale and carrot shoots in olive oil with garlic. I opted to prepare a vegan meal out of what we picked on the farm. So you could imagine, my excitement after reaching home to make a Farm to Table dinner for us to celebrate our harvest festival. My favorite way of cooking starts with picking fresh produce. Now Don’t forget to watch this video ‘ Top 10 Reasons why you should take your Kids to Farms’ and see us picking fresh organic produce on Farm 182. You can find more about Al Rahba Farm 182 here and here are GPS coordinates 24.611083,54.695732. Auh small bird bell full#I bought two full baskets of fresh organic vegetables for just 50 Dirhams. Auh small bird bell for free#Firstly there are no fees for picking your own activity, the whole experience is for free and the organic produce is so much cheaper than supermarkets. When Ruhaan was feeding goats the greens, it reminded me of his first experience of petting farm animals during his 1st birthday, a farm theme birthday party here in Dubai.Īfter a fabulous time on the farm, when I went to pay for the produce we picked I was surprised to find such fantastic rates of organic produce. There is also a small poultry farm on the farm 182 and you can also buy fresh organic eggs there. Ruhaan particularly loved feeding goats some of our carrot shoots. No farm experience can be complete without farm animals. The smell of organic farm was so nostalgic overall, it took me back to my grandma’s garden where she used to use only leftover food or food scraps to fertilize her garden, but hardly then she knew that she has an urban organic garden! The farm 182, is certified organic by local ESMA & EU. I even noticed a huge pile of compost and later confirmed with one of the staff of the farm. While we were randomly walking around the farm, we saw small fig trees and some moringa trees, which is popularly known as the drumstick. In the end, I couldn’t resist picking some rocket leaves and mint. There is a noticeable difference between the smell, texture & also taste of fresh organic vegetables and the smell of general vegetables we find in regular supermarkets. Frankly some of these vegetables even I was picking the first time. Auh small bird bell Patch#Next, we picked zucchinis from the outdoor patch along with celery sticks and kale. We also got to see, tomato plants, but tomatoes were still green and not ripe yet, so we couldn’t pick fresh tomatoes. So we picked a good number of red, orange, green, yellow peppers from the capsicum creepers. To our surprise, there were tons of colorful peppers, bell peppers or capsicums to pick from. Then we went on to pick some peppers in greenhouses. So I explained to him how this helps to keep birds away from the crops else, they will eat most the vegetables and fruits which are growing here. When in the field Ruhaan asked me what is that, I realized this is the first time he was seeing scarecrow from so close. Believe me, picking fresh produce on the farm is a great physical activity for your kids, especially if you are like me looking for filling the quota of daily physical activity of a very active child! Pulling carrots was one of his most favorite activities on the farm that day. Ruhaan was totally excited to pick fresh produce and carried his basket everywhere till it got a bit heavy. It was a great opportunity to teach him about how food grows and some essential techniques for picking the right size, ripe produce. We were rather happy to have such homely treatment on the farm as we could spend as much time we wanted in each vegetable patch. The tours are not arranged on the farm but the staff on the farm are very friendly and guide you where to find what on the farm. There is a shop just as you enter, but like many other families, we decided to pick a basket and started our tour to freshly smelling organic farms. Typical sounds of farm animals welcomed us. We arrived at Al Rahba Organic Farm 182, early afternoon. Read here all about the Indian harvest festival. I have amazing memories from my childhood of worshiping fresh harvest during this festival, so I thought what could be a better way to give Ruhaan a farm experience on this occasion. This year we decided to celebrate our traditional harvest festival on an organic farm by picking our own fresh organic harvest.
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