We recently added nine new children’s storybooks to our Growing Minds farm to school lending library, along with a new resource guide for starting a school garden. All of these titles are now included in our searchable database of more than 600 children’s books, curriculum, and cookbooks. They’re also available for educators in the Asheville area to
Sheila thinks her next-door neighbors are weird. They hang their laundry on the line, cut their lawn with a push mower, shop at the farmers market, and heat their home with a woodstove. But are they truly weird, or do they have some good ideas?
Young Lupe loves helping her mother with their salsa garden full of tomatoes, chile peppers, onions, garlic and cilantro. But one summer day, she sees that the biggest, juiciest tomatoes have disappeared! Who could have taken them?!? Including easy-to-make recipes, this bilingual picture book for children ages 4-8 will have them clamoring for a garden
A young girl growing up on a farm doesn’t share her father’s love of farming, but finds her own way to be helpful when she takes in a baby dragon to raise.
Dragons love feasting on tasty princesses, but one dragon is different. Herb loves vegetables and wants the dragons to be peaceful creatures. Will he convert his friends to his unusual ways?
What happens in the country when everyone is asleep? The nighttime world awakens, and the air is filled with their sounds.
Little Red Chicken keeps interrupting Papa when he tries to read her a bedtime story. Will she ever get to sleep?
As the days grow shorter, harvest time approaches. Rhythmic rhymes and a repeating refrain describe the process of “bringing the harvest home.”
Can chickens swim or fly or lay golden eggs? Henrietta is tired of life in the cramped chicken coop and is ready for something more. Even though the older chickens laugh at her, she soon inspires them to reach a little bit higher themselves.
Mother Earth writes this letter to all the children of the world, reminding them of the importance of loving and protecting her.