Watch Me Grow: A Down to Earth Look at Growing Food in the City

Want to make a farm out of your front yard? Live in the city and think fresh veggies only come from the supermarket? Here's a great introduction to and encouragement for young kids about planting and harvesting your own fresh food. You too can have a vegetable garden or a chicken coop no matter where you live. The book breaks down the stereotypes about where to garden and offers suggestions of what to plant where whether balcony or alleyway or community garden plot. It's full of photographs of real kids in action with bees and eggs and pots of lettuce. So what will you grow? This book is a great read aloud for a classroom and could easily introduce a lesson on planting a bean seed or a lettuce plant and eventually eating your own homework! Ages 5-10 32 pages