Recommend these books to older students who are interested in gardening, agriculture and food-related current events.
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GEF Activity Links: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Young Reader Edition Michael Pollan |
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On Guerrilla Gardening Richard Reynolds Calling up images of Mao Tse-tung and Che Guevara, Reynolds advocates for the guerrilla gardening movement with a handbook exhibiting an inquisitive nature, social concern, and an international perspective. |
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Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden David Hirsch In what is called "a gardening book for cooks and a cookbook for gardeners," Hirsch offers brief seed-starting instructions, cultural requirements, harvesting instructions, garden design plans, and culinary tips for a variety of vegetables and herbs. He also includes general gardening techniques, insect control, and recipes from the Moosewood kitchens. |
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Essential Gardening for Teens Ruth Chasek Readers are given the basics and are then encouraged to get more information from seed packets, other gardening books, and a local garden center. This attitude gives teens ownership of the process and shows respect for whatever potential readers may have. |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavores–those who eat only locally grown foods. |
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Coming Home to Eat Gary Paul Nabhan Nabhan, a subsistence hunter, ethnobiologist, and activist devoted to recovering lost food traditions, gave himself a task: to spend a year trying to eat foods grown, fished, or gathered within 250 miles of his Arizona home. His book, both personal document and political screed, details this experiment from the moment Nabhan purges his kitchen of canned and other processed foods to a final food-gathering pilgrimage. |