Teaches kids about the purposes, tools, science, and basic steps of garden growing, and also provides several recipes and lists of mail-order, print, and Internet resources, as well as gardens to visit.
Discusses the organic food movement and recent information about the United States Department of Agriculture's criteria for what defines an organic food.
18th-century methods for today's organic gardeners
Greene, Wesley
2012
Shares the history of vegetable gardening in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, with practical advice for growing fifty vegetables and herbs using organic, colonial methods.
Introduces children to organic gardening, explaining its benefits and offering advice on choosing the right types of plants, enriching soil with natural products, preventing pests, building a worm composter, and more.