Little Chefs Big Meals: A Day on the Farm With Suzanne Goin

I'm Suzanne Goin and we're at Coleman Farms

about an hour and a half north of LA.

It's just amazing to get up this morning and leave LA

and in 45 minutes you have the ocean on one side

and the hills on the other side and then be

in this rolling hills and oak trees and horses

and all kinds of stuff just really feeling like you're

in a different world, like old California.

That's what it feels like to me.

When we showed up, Bill Coleman's in there peeling garlic

and his wife's cleaning greens

and the kids are running around.

The one thing about kids is they love pulling things up.

All of our radishes we have in one afternoon.

In like five minutes they're all up out of the ground,

so they love that.

Fennel's good, it gets a little more of a struggle.

I mean, this has always been my life,

so it's kind of always been my kids' life.

I mean, we don't go that often

but they've definitely been to farms.

We have a little garden in our house.

That idea of this is where the stuff comes from,

when it comes time to eat it all,

it all makes sense to them.

It's not just some random scary thing

that they don't understand.

It's like, Oh yeah. That's that thing that I saw.

The other good thing about bringing kids to a farm

is for them to, one, see how it happens and then also,

I don't know when I'm at a farm I'm always like,

How do you only charge $1.50 for a head of lettuce?

I think it's cool too to learn, you know,

they're around David and I all the time

and they know how passionate we are

about what we do but to learn other people

have other passions about other things.

I love having my kids turned on to people

or see people who do what they love

and make their life of it.

I think it's good inspiration for them.