A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.

From flowers to fruits, everything begins with a tiny seed. Young readers will learn how seeds grow, and how they vary in shape, size, and dispersal patterns. From cherry pits to exploding pods, to sticktight seeds that cling to your shoes, acclaimed photographer and author Ken Robbins illuminates how wondrous nature springs up throughout the year before our very eyes.

Scott Chaskey -- working farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community farming movement -- considers "the web of biodiversity and resilience at the heart of our cultural inheritance" by masterfully weaving history, politics, botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful and instructive book. It's hard to think of a subject more fundamental to the sustenance of the human race than seeds. Having coevolved with the Earth's plants,...

This is a complete seed saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. 80 photos.

A full-color resource explains how to gather, clean, and store seeds for three hundred different kinds of vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs, as well as how to propagate and care for new seedlings.

The New Seed-Starters Handbook presents step-by-step guides to starting plants from seed, which allows for earlier harvests, greater variety, and healthier seedlings.

Explains how seeds become plants, what happens to plants in the winter, and how insects help and harm them, and answers other questions about plants.

Introduces the physical traits, function, and uses of seeds.

Brief text and illustrations tell the story of a boy, a rabbit, and a seed.