July 2020: New Books Added to Growing Minds Library

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

Harvesting Friends/Cosechando Amigos

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

Harvest Home

As the days grow shorter, harvest time approaches.  Rhythmic rhymes and a repeating refrain describe the process of “bringing the harvest home.”

Henrietta and the Golden Egg

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.

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