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Farm to Keiki: Cooking, Gardening and Nutrition with Children

This book makes it easy to teach children gardening, nutrition and cooking with fresh, Hawai’i grown foods. While originally written for Hawaii’s pk-3rd grade teachers, the information can be adapted for any age group or educational setting (school and home) anywhere in the world! Learn more and purchase this book here. Learn to Teach Children:

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We Are the Gardeners

By Gaines, Joanna

Younger and older readers will enjoy We Are the Gardeners, written by Joanna Gaines and illustrated by Julianna Swaney. In this book, Joanna Gaines (of HGTV’s Fixer Upper fame) and her kids chronicle their adventures starting a garden, describing the mishaps, joys, and lessons that happen along the way. They begin with a story many

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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

By Larkin, Eric-Shabazz; Martin, Jacqueline

Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he’s as tall as his truck, and he can hold a cabbage–or a basketball–in one hand. But what is most special about Farmer Will is that he can see what others can’t see. When he looked at an abandoned city lot in Milwaukee he saw

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The Wind’s Garden

By Roberts, Bethany

A springtime book to germinate a deep appreciation for nature. While a little girl plants seeds in her garden in neat straight rows, the wind whirls seeds of flowers and trees every which way. The little girl weeds and waters her garden, the wind just lets its garden grow. From seedling to flower, this book describes

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The Garden That We Grew

By Holub, Joan

After planting the seeds and watching them grow, huge pumpkins appear in a patch. Now we can make pumpkin pie and jack-o’-lanterns! Planting a garden is so much fun, and this rhyming reader shows us how. A Penguin Young Readers Level 2 book.

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Using Division Facts in the Garden

By Bussell, Linda

The Lewis School Garden Club is planning a vegetable garden. The first step is to build a fence around the garden. Join the students as they use division to determine exactly how much lumber they will need.

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Growing Minds Day by Day: Week of February 15

This week’s theme is seed starting. Our “Growing Minds Day by Day” educational resource lists are designed for families and educators to use during COVID-19 and beyond.

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The Extraordinary Gardener

By Boughton, Sam

Joe lives in a very grey world but he dreams of a world with plants taller than skyscrapers, a world “full of beauty, colour, scent and song.” Find out how Joe’s world goes from ordinary to EXTRAORDINARY!

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Errol’s Garden

By Hibbs, Gillian

Errol loves gardening. Although his home is full of beautiful plants, he longs for an outdoor space where he can grow things. A chance discovery leads to a solution, but Errol can’t do everything on his own. Luckily, help is near at hand. A heart-warming and inclusive tale about how one small boy’s dream of a garden unites

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Growing Minds Day by Day: Week of July 13

This week’s theme is berries. Our “Growing Minds Day by Day” educational resource lists are designed for families and educators to use during the COVID-19 quarantine and beyond.

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