What's that you say? You're hungry? Right this very minute? Then you need a farmer. You have the stories of so many right here on your table! Award winners Lisl H. Detlefsen and Renee Kurilla's delicious celebration of food and farming is sure to inspire readers of all ages to learn more about where their food comes from - right this very minute! This book needs to be returned. 

In this beautiful ABC book, C is for Crab; D is for Douglas fir; and E is for Eagle. Based on Pacific Northwest artist Hannah Viano’s regionally themed paper-cut art, this lovely children’s book sheds a new light on the ABCs that will appeal to young and old alike.

SFC's Grow Local program's School Garden Start-up Guide offers steps for starting and sustaining a successful school garden. A school garden is a valuable tool for hands-on classroom learning for a wide variety of subjects. This guide focuses on getting organized, designing the garden, building and caring for the garden, managing the garden, and sustaining the garden.

Shanté Keys loves New Year's Day! But while Grandma fixed chitlins, baked ham, greens, and cornbread, she forgot the black-eyed peas! Oh no--it'll be bad luck without them! So Shanté sets out to borrow some from the neighbors. On the way, she encounters a diversity of New Year's traditions.

Sonya raises her three chickens from the time they are tiny chicks. She feeds them, shelters them and loves them. Everywhere Sonya goes, her chicks are peeping at her heels. Under her care, the chicks grow into hens and even give Sonya a wonderful gift: an egg! One night, Sonya hears noises coming from the chicken coop and discovers that one of her hens has disappeared. Where did the hen go? What happened to her? When Sonya discovers the answers, she learns some important truths about the interconnectedness of nature and the true joys and sorrows of caring for another creature.

This book offers hands-on activities from the educators at Life Lab that teachers can incorporate into their curriculum and instruction to help students learn and lead healthy lives. Preschool-age children will engage all of their senses as they investigate and explore the joys of gardening. Your young students will develop a lifelong connection to the outdoors as they dig into the soil; observe birds, insects, and other critters in the garden; and enjoy the tastes of fresh fruits and vegetables they have helped to plant, harvest, and prepare.

This book explains the many different uses of sugar. Students learn what nutrients they get from this food, and why it is important to eat a balanced diet. Part of the A True Book series. This book needs to be returned. 

The tender relationship between grandparent and grandchild is illuminated in this children’s book. Children will sow and reap ideas of their own about ways to share a little joy, just as Marisol does with sunflowers.La relación entre un abuelo y un nieto está iluminada por este libro de niños. Los niños van a sembrar y cosechar sus propias ideas sobre maneras de compartir alegría, al igual que Marisol con sus girasoles.