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Hollyhocks and Honeybees: Garden Projects for Young Children

By Midden, Karen; Olthof, Marla; Starbuck, Sara

Written by a parent, a teacher, and a child education director, this resource is the result of their experience creating a diverse garden at their early childhood center. Their goal is to share their experiences in hopes that parents and educators will integrate gardening as a learning tool for young children.

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The Bountiful Container

By Stuckey, Maggie; McGee, Rose

Learn how to create a garden on your balcony or patio with container gardening. Organized by different vegetables, herbs, fruits and edible flowers, McGee and Stuckey have written a manual with all the best advice for growing a large variety of edible plants within a confined space.

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Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence: Discovered Letters of a Southern Gardener

By Wilson, Emily

The letters displayed in this book showcase how a woman of a different era of North Carolina became the author of A Southern Garden, a 1942 gardening book that is still read today. Through piecing together her correspondence with mentors, other writers, and friends, the editor had given us a rare look into a prolific

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The Growing Classroom: Garden-Based Science

By Appel, Gary; Jaffe, Roberta

Science plus gardening gives us the “Life Lab”, where students can observe with their own eyes the concepts they learn in science class. In this book, Roberta and Gary have provided more than 150 field-tested, garden based activities that will get students outside observing our world’s natural rhythms while potentially sparking a scientific interest in

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Down & Dirty! 43 Fun and Funky First-Time Projects & Activities to Get You Gardening

By Zachos, Ellen

Have you ever been interested in starting a garden but felt too overwhelmed to do so? Perhaps you felt like you didn’t have the right knowledge, skills, or enough time to do so. Well, prepare to leave those excuses behind! This book offers 43 different gardening projects and activities that are perfect for people who

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Serving Up the Harvest: Celebrating the Goodness of Fresh Vegetables

By Chesman, Andrea

Whether you’re a cook that gardens, a gardener that cooks, or a person that just loves fresh fruits and vegetables, you will be left motivated and hungry after thumbing through this cookbook! Andrea Chesman, a chef that loves to garden, brings her readers 175 simple and delicious recipes that are organized according to their harvesting

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Foxfire 4

Foxfire 4, released in the Fall of 1977, continues to compile the best articles that inform readers on topics such as knifemaking, wood carving, gardening, fiddle making, and much more. Anyone that has a love of the Appalachian mountains and is interested in rediscovering the advantages of living a simple life will enjoy this read!

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Foxfire 11

In the eleventh volume of Foxfire, teachers, students, and other Appalachian community members continue to spread their stories to remind people that simple living still exists. This book includes many articles that teach us creative ways to become self-sufficient, make natural homemade remedies, take part in home crafts, and cook delicious, southern meals. Anyone interested

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The Gigantic Sweet Potato

By Casas, Dianne

After weeks of hard work and tending to her garden, it was finally time for Ma Farmer to harvest her sweet potato and make some sweet potato pie; but when she tried to pull the tasty vegetable from the ground, it wouldn’t budge. With the help of her husband and some friendly farm animals, they

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How to Grow Garlic

Thanks to a generous donation from Sow True Seed, we have free garlic for pre-K-12 school gardens in the Appalachian Grown region!

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