Table 1 Summary of childhood experiences from interviewee responses

Urban background/No access to a plot of land

- Family in the countryside, unfortunately, I had neither on one side nor the other

Urban background/Holiday (weekend) trips to grandparents in the countryside

- I remember there were carrots that I would pull out of the ground, eat after washing

- I remember the smell of freshly picked tomatoes

- It was the grandfather who was the thought leader

- Going to grandma's in the allotment was no longer attractive

- I remember weeding from garden work and the pain in my back

Urban background/Holiday (weekend) trips to suburban plots their parents owned

- I had my own raised bed, I really enjoyed planting, weeding and always had such fun doing it

- It's nice to go out into the garden and pick something of your own straight from the bush and eat it yourself

- The attachment to healthy food has always been there

- It came out rather naturally

- It was on such a very utilitarian basis and not for pleasure

- I didn't draw some kind of love for cultivation

- There is always quite a lot of work to be done

- I did not like it

- Somehow I wasn't very interested in that

- Then it turned out to cost a lot of work and my mother gave it up

Agricultural background

- Better composition than what is bought in the shop

- A bit of innate awareness

- I was actively involved in the work in this garden

- I can't say it was any such tradition,

but there were conversations at home about it

Today this tradition has died in that area

- It was so natural that we had a vegetable

- I've never been a fan of that

- It didn't make me feel satisfied

- Why do I need it, after all, everything can be bought

- My parents cultivated it and we as children helped

- Unfortunately, with this acreage, this is troublesome

- Despite the role models we have learned from home, we don't quite fit in

- We were somehow not super enthusiastic about weeding beds

- It was not a cool activity