Grocery Row Gardening An Exciting New Permaculture Gardening System Imagine creating a garden where apples and asparagus thrive beside beans and broccoli. Picture beautiful rows of trees, vegetables and flowers all growing together as butterflies, birds and bees dance overhead. Walk through with a basket and pick pears and blueberries, peppers and tomatoes, herbs and cut flowers - all from the same garden. With Grocery Row Gardening, you'll learn to harness the power of a forest's edge by linking the abundance of a food forest with a traditional vegetable garden. Grocery Row Gardening is a new permaculture gardening method that combines multiple different gardening systems into a resilient, pest-resistant, long-term food generating machine for your backyard. It combines ideas as diverse as Steve Solomon's writings on micronutrients with Geoff Lawton's food forest design, with Stefan Sobkowiak's permaculture orchard and Ernst Götsch's Syntropic Farming, with Ann Ralph's backyard orchard culture and edible hedges. It makes for a beautiful and powerful permaculture method that sails through weather extremes and creates a survival garden which will keep your family fed with a wide range of produce, month after month. Though this system is still in development, this book outlines how you can join in the fun and experimentation as Grocery Row Gardening takes off. Learn to think about growing food in a whole new way and create your most diverse and beautiful garden yet.

Diverse young characters work together to grow fruits and vegetables in the garden from seed to sprout to harvest. This is a rich STEM experience that introduces children to the beneficial process of working the land and reaping the rewards. Filled with teachable moments, simple gardening terminology, and opportunities to mimic and move. An enjoyable way to give youngsters control over their diets and promote healthy eating. Lyrical rhyming verses and colorful imagery prompt readers to make little discoveries along the way. Plant something that helps children grow! ------- Related terms and phrases: gardening for young children, community gardens, nutrition month, fruits and vegetables, growing healthy foods, growing fruits, growing vegetables, planting vegetables, planting fruit, harvesting a garden, planting healthy food, planting a garden, how to plant a garden, garden fresh food, healthy living, healthy eating. ***** This title is available in bulk for early childhood and family grants that promote healthy eating, fruits and vegetables, gardening, farm to table, STEM initiatives, and anti-obesity. Contact the publisher (Abridge Club) directly for orders and pricing. --------- Similar books in this category: "Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens "Planting a Rainbow" by Lois Ehlert. ------ Early Childhood Benefits of Gardening: 1. Gives an opportunity to design and create a gardening space. 2. A socioemotional experience - children work cooperatively toward a positive outcome. 3. Provides a therapeutic calming effect from outdoor, fresh air activity, disconnected from electronics and the stress of life. (Netherlands study) 4. Engages all senses - a sensorimotor experience. 5. Gain an understanding of where food comes from. 6. Leads to increased food preparation after harvest. 7. Encourages the consumption of fresh produce. Children who grow their own food are more likely to eat fresh fruits and vegetables. 8. Engages children and adults in moderate exercise and physical activity: bending, twisting, stretching, lifting, pulling, reaching. Improves fine motor skills, hand strength, and dexterity. 9. Learn patience, responsibility, and gain a sense of confidence. 10. Experience a scientific process that pays off. 11. Develops planning, STEM, and analytical abilities. 12. Introduces the sciences: life, earth, and physical sciences - botany, biology, and chemistry. 13. Provides an opportunity to examine the world around us: weather, temperature, insects, animals, etc. 14. Explores the limits of natural resources and the importance of using them carefully. 15. Highlights the importance of taking care of the environment. 16. Sunshine on the skin helps the body make Vitamin D! Vitamin D helps our bodies use calcium, keeps our bones strong, and helps us fight diseases.

Grow It, Try It, Like It! Preschool Fun with Fruits and Vegetables is a garden-themed nutrition education kit for child care center staff that introduces children to: three fruits - peaches, strawberries, and cantaloupe, and three vegetables - spinach, sweet potatoes, and crookneck squash.

At last, a field guide to identifying and selecting more than 200 fruits and vegetables from around the world! The perfect companion for every shopper, Field Guide to Produce offers tips for selecting, storing, and preparing everything from apples to zucchini. When an unfamiliar edible appears on your grocer’s shelf, simply flip through the full-color insert until you’ve found its photograph. Turn to the corresponding page to discover its country of origin, common uses, and season of harvest. This practical guide includes more than 200 full-color photographs of the world’s most popular fruits and vegetables, cross-referenced to in-depth descriptions and selection tips. Step-by-step preparation directions tell you whether the item must be peeled, washed, trimmed, or blanched. Grocery shopping—and dinner—will never be the same again!

This package presents a variety of activities and approaches to learning about fruit and vegetables. The activities focus on the following skills: Creative Writing, Matching, Brainstorming, Word Study, Art, Cooking, and Research.

Written for major and advanced non-major course offerings, Nutrition, Seventh Edition provides students with a comprehensive, current, and science-based introduction to nutrition concepts, guidelines, and functions. It's student-focused approach provides information about topics and issues that concern them -- a balanced diet, nutritional supplements, weight management, exercise, and much more. Throughout each chapter readers will engage with the latest dietary guidelines, scientific evidence, and national standards to help individuals follow a healthy dietary pattern at every life stage.

A necessary addition to any prepper's or survivalists's shelf! A one-year food supply means freedom. It means that you are less subject to the whims of the economy or personal financial emergencies. You can handle small disasters with aplomb. You aren't reliant on the government if a crisis strikes. You can’t be manipulated because your family is hungry. This edition provides to a detailed compendium of all things food storage. Geared towards preppers, it teaches you: Why everyone needs a food supply in their homes How much food you need How your pantry is directly related to your health The components of a perfect pantry Prepping for those with dietary restrictions A thrifty new way of shopping so you can afford to build your pantry How to store the food you purchase to extend the shelf life for as long as possible A week-by-week plan, complete with shopping lists and menu ideas How to save money by making items most people purchase ready-made at the store Pantry inventory and maintenance Where to store all of that food Bonus: 25 frugal and delicious recipes If you’re new at this, you can take the most important step today--the step of getting started. You'll have a year's supply of food in no time at all! *This is the most updated and revised version of Daisy Luther’s The Pantry Primer*

Power Vegan is a guide to finding the foods that will truly power our daily lives and explains the reasoning behind how eating a more plant-based diet will achieve this aim. Whether readers want to eat better, get fit, or train like an athlete, Power Vegan contains the personalized, balanced approach to a healthier lifestyle. The idea behind power eating is not a fad diet. It's about incorporating foods into your life that you like, make you feel good, are easy to prepare, and are not too expensive. The book is filled not only with tips, but easy 30-minutes-or-less recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, and snacks. Whether the goal is gaining energy, building muscle, or simply feeling and functioning better, Power Vegan will provide the tools to get healthy and avoid all-too-common pitfalls. Power eating is not about being tied to the gym or the kitchen, but rather about fitting in the health concepts everyone needs while ditching the rest of the diet and exercise "noise" that people are bombarded with every day.

Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year. Learn how to select the best varieties for each season, the art of succession planting, and how to build inexpensive structures to protect your crops from the elements. No matter where you live, you’ll soon enjoy a thriving vegetable garden year-round.

Say good-bye to flavorless tomatoes, mealy apples, and "mystery meats." Say hello to the way food used to taste-and still can. The Real Food Revival is a book of celebration and indulgence, an ode to culinary delight, and an indispensable reference guide for food lovers everywhere. It takes you through the delicious process of filling your pantries (and tummies) with Real Food. Simply put, Real Food is: delicious, produced as locally as possible, sustainable, affordable, and accessible. In The Real Food Revival, readers will learn how to find Real Food wherever they shop, and how to navigate the jargon-organic, eco-friendly, fresh, fresh-frozen, cage-free, GMO-free, fair-trade, grass-fed, grain-finished-in order to make meaningful choices. The book also informs readers about alternative Real Food sources such as CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture systems), direct-from-the-farm, and the Internet.