Tamlin (mother of Allanah and Jensen): We usually go market shopping at least once or twice every month. I think it’s really important to involve them in the shopping, because it helps them learn to make healthy choices for themselves.

Eugene (father of Allanah and Jensen): Do you know where they grow? Where do mandarins grow?

Jensen: Trees and gardens.

Eugene: They grow in the trees and the gardens, well done. Good boy. Does that look good? They’re growing all over them; the trees are all over our neighbourhood, aren’t they? They’re everywhere, but they’re so sweet, especially when you have them in salads. You can put them in other things as well. They need to get a little bit redder. When they are a little bit red, see like this one, they’re a little bit more sweet. They are nicer when they are fresh, aren’t they?

Alannah: Yep.

Tamlin: When you’re a kid growing up in the city, you really don’t get much understanding of where the food comes from. Even though we have tomatoes in our backyard, it’s not quite the same as going to a full-scale farm and being able to see trees and things being harvested and things like that.

Eugene: Where does the honey come from, Jen-Jen?

Jensen: Bees. Honey bees.

Eugene: Honey bees, good boy. That’s the whole honeycomb there.

Shopkeeper: It hasn’t been processed at all. It’s in its total, natural state.

Jensen: Straight off the beehive. And the bees say, ‘Where did my honey go?’

Eugene: Do you want to get some parsley? Which one is parsley? There’s lots of green around here. Which one is the parsley?

Jensen: I think it’s this one.