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  • Garden to Table bookLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 4 (of )

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    Garden to Table

    Julie Knutson

    Follow farmer Tim Redmond of Skinny Farm of Scio as he takes produce from farm to table and discover all the ways small scale farmers contribute to what we eat--and how we live! Aligned to curriculum standards, these books also highlight key 21st Century content: Global Awareness, Financial Literacy, Health and Wellness, Civics Literacy, and Environmental Stewardship. Thought-provoking questions and hands-on activities encourage the development of critical life skills and social emotional growth. This book must be returned.
    Categories: Careers, Farming, Food, General Agriculture, Non-fiction, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • I Love StrawberriesLogin to Hold

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    I Love Strawberries

    Shannon Anderson

    Jolie LOVES strawberries - and she’s on an unstoppable mission to grow her own food from seedling to table in this colorful introduction to the joy of growing the popular perennial. Through Jolie’s comical scrapbook-style journal entries, young readers will learn how she convinces the “old people” (aka her parents) to let her grow her own strawberries. Growing strawberries is a lot of work and responsibility, but Jolie is ready to find out just how delicious, rewarding, and sometimes complicated it can be to grow your own food.

    This book must be returned.See product webpage on Feeding Minds Press to access teaching resources and coloring pages: https://www.feedingmindspress.com/our-books/i-love-strawberries 
    Categories: Food, Gardening, Literacy Project Books, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Outdoor Farm, Indoor FarmLogin to Hold

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    Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm

    Lindsay H. Metcalf

    Discover how both outdoor and indoor farms sustainably grow the food we eat throughout the year in this vibrant, rhyming picture book.Outdoor farm, tractors toil.Indoor farm, zero soil.With energetic, enchanting verse and sunshiny, colorful illustrations, discover how the food you eat is grown both outside—and inside! Join two children as they explore the inner workings of an outdoor farm and an indoor farm. You’ll see how a variety of amazing machinery like tractors and drones along with innovative farming techniques yield the wonderful food we all love to enjoy.This book must be returned.
    Categories: Farming, Food, General Agriculture, Literacy Project Books, Plants, Science, Soils, Technology, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Gardening with Less WaterLogin to Hold

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    Gardening with Less Water

    David A. Bainbridge

    Gardening with Less Water offers simple, inexpensive, low-tech techniques for watering your garden much more efficiently — using up to 90 percent less water for the same results. With illustrated step-by-step instructions, David Bainbridge shows you how to install buried clay pots and pipes, wicking systems, and other porous containers that deliver water directly to a plant’s roots with little to no evaporation. These systems are available at hardware stores and garden centers; are easy to set up and use; and work for garden beds, container gardens, and trees.This book would be an excellent resource for 6th-12th grade educators looking to provide water conservation engineering challenges for their students.This book must be returned.
    Categories: Gardening, Soils, Washington County Library, Water
    Resource Type: Books, Instructional Units
  • 'Til The Cows Come HomeLogin to Hold

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    ‘Til The Cows Come Home

    Jodi Icenoggle

    The author lassos a traditional Jewish folktale, "The Button Story", sets it in the American West, and rigs it up with tongue-tingling cowboy language to create an engaging story. A young cowboy, gifted in making saddles and bridles, receives a sturdy, soft-as-silk piece of leather from a grateful cowpuncher and stitches it into a pair of "whoopi-ti-yi-yo chaps." Follow the leather through the young cowboy’s life. The companion book to the Ag Tag Matching Game lesson plan and the Ag Tag Matching Game Kit. Please check the kit out separately. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Animals, Conservation & Natural Resources, Literacy Project Books
    Resource Type: Books
  • PlaceholderLogin to Hold

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    Plant Life

    Peter Riley

    This series is an introduction to the key science subjects, explaining the main scientific principles and showing how they work. Plant Life details the variety of plants in the world and how they grow and fertilize.'This book must be returned
    Categories: Lifecycles, Plants, Science
    Resource Type: Books
  • SeedLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 5 (of 12)

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    Seed, Soil, Sun

    Cris Peterson

    Seed. Soil. Sun. With these simple ingredients, nature creates our food. This beautifully written book by Cris Peterson, brings both wonder and clarity to the subject of agriculture, celebrating the cycle of growth, harvest, and renewal. The photography that conveys this story is a perfect fit for this story. The companion book to the Seed, Soil, Sun lesson plan and the Seed, Soil, Sun Kit. Please check the kit out separately.
    Categories: Gardening, Literacy Project Books, Plants, Science, Seeds, Soils, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • PlaceholderLogin to Hold

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    Honeybee The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera

    Candace Fleming,Eric Rohmann

    A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans the nursery and feeds the larvae and the queen. But is she strong enough to fly? Not yet!Apis builds wax comb to store honey, and transfers pollen from other bees into the storage. She defends the hive from invaders. And finally, she begins her new life as an adventurer.The confining walls of the hive fall away as Apis takes to the air, finally free, in a brilliant double-gatefold illustration where the clear blue sky is full of promise-- and the wings of dozens of honeybees, heading out in search of nectar to bring back to the hive.Eric Rohmann's exquisitely detailed illustrations bring the great outdoors into your hands in this poetically written tribute to the hardworking honeybee. Award-winning author Candace Fleming describes the life cycle of the honeybee in accessible, beautiful language. Similar in form and concept to the Sibert and Orbis Pictus award book Giant Squid, Honeybee also features a stunning gatefold and an essay on the plight of honeybees. This book needs to be returned.
    Categories: Insects
    Resource Type: Books
  • A Pocketful of GoobersLogin to Hold

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    A Pocketful of Goobers

    Barbara Mitchell

    This book relates the scientific efforts of George Washington Carver, especially his production of more than 300 uses for the peanut. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Farming, Foods & Nutrition
    Resource Type: Books
  • A Weed is a FlowerLogin to Hold

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    A Weed is a Flower

    ALIKI

    George Washington Carver often said that a weed is a flower growing in the wrong place. He might have said this about himself. As the child of slaves, he grew up eager to learn, but was unable to find a school in his neighborhood that would accept black students. It was twenty years before he had enough money saved to go to college, but eventually George Washington Carver became a professor at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There he was able to teach poor farmers the value of plants such as the sweet potato and the peanut - crops that were almost unknown at the time, but for which he invented hundreds of uses.Written and illustrated with affection for "a wonderful man who devoted his whole life to making life better for others," Aliki's biography tells the remarkable story of a great figure in African American history who is now recognized as the most prominent Black scientist of the early twentieth century. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Careers, Farming, History, Science
    Resource Type: Books
  • Achoo! Why Pollen CountsLogin to Hold

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    Achoo! Why Pollen Counts

    Shennen Bersani

    Spring has arrived and pollen is in the air. Baby Bear does not like the pollen-it sticks to his fur and makes him itchy and sneezy. He’s allergic! Achoo! He just wishes the pollen were gone. When his friends gather to tell him why they need pollen, Baby Bear learns that pollen is good for the forest and provides food for many animals, including him! Pollen might be something we all love to hate, but can we really live without it? This story explains why we need it. This title is also available in Spanish.
    Categories: Gardening, General Agriculture, Insects, Plants, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Achiss! La Importancia de PolenLogin to Hold

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    Achiss! La Importancia de Polen

    Shennen Bersani

    La primavera ha llegado y el polen se siente en el aire. Al bebé Oso no le gusta el polen - se le pega en su pelaje y lo hace tener comezón y estornudar. ¡Él es alérgico! ¡Achís! Desearía que el polen no existiera. Cuando sus amigos se reúnen para decirle por qué nececitan el polen, el bebé Oso aprende que el polen es bueno para el bosque y que provee alimento para muchos animales, ¡que lo incluyen a él! El polen puede ser algo que todos odiemos pero, ¿realmente podemos sobrevivir sin él? Esta historia explica por qué lo necesitamos.
    Categories: Gardening, General Agriculture, Plants, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books, Spanish
  • Agricultural DronesLogin to Hold

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    Agricultural Drones

    Simon Rose

    Farm fields can span hundreds of acres. With so much area to cover, checking crops and livestock can be difficult. But with an agricultural drone, this job becomes much simpler. Young readers will discover how drones help farmers maximize efficiencies and bring abundant harvests. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Careers, Farming, Food, Science, Technology
    Resource Type: Books
  • An Earthworm's LifeLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 1 (of 4)

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    An Earthworm’s Life

    John Himmelman

    Have you ever wondered how many nature's smallest creatures spend their days? Here's your chance to take a scientifically accurate peek at the world from their point of view. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Gardening
    Resource Type: Books
  • What's in the Garden?Login to Hold

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    What’s in the Garden?

    Marianne Berkes

    Good food doesn't begin on a store shelf with a box. It comes from a garden bursting with life, color, sounds, smells, sunshine, moisture, birds, and bees! Healthy food becomes much more interesting when children know where they come from. So what's in the garden? Kids will find a variety fruits and vegetables, and a tasty, kid-friendly recipe for each one to start a lifetime of good eating. A food for thought section presents interesting facts about each fruit and vegetable, and a how does your garden grow? section explains facts about gardening and the parts of plants.
    Categories: Foods & Nutrition, Gardening, Plants, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Animal FibersLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 9 (of 9)

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    Animal Fibers

    Jo Massam-Windsor

    Students learn about where different types of animal fibers come from, how they are collected and what they are used for. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Animals
    Resource Type: Books