Presents a collection of plant-based recipes advocated by the landmark study, with kids-friendly options for breakfast foods, sandwiches, soups, main dishes, and desserts.

Describes fruits and vegetables including their importance as food.

Help kids grow their own fresh food! Kids will be able to plant and grow ingredients for a fresh salad, make plant markers, a pot scarecrow to keep the birds away and more. Super Simple Salad Gardens will help them learn how. Dig into the world of gardening! Simple text, how-to photos, and garden care advice make it easy and fun. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing.

Centuries ago before chemical fertilizers and engineered inputs, the most productive vegetable gardens shared one common attribute: the vegetables were paired up. Not with other vegetables, but with beds of beautiful flowers. Even then, gardeners knew that vegetables love flowers. Or to be more precise, vegetables love pollinators, and pollinators love flowers. Drawn by colorful, fragrant blossoms, they visit in swarms, performing their good work....

This charming book of sixty-five recipes plus tips and activities makes any farmers' market a fun and flavorful adventure for the whole family.
From exploring the different booths to selecting produce and tasting the unique flavors each season brings, the farmers' market provides a fertile playground for kids. It provides a fun family activity while building healthy habits and supporting sustainable eating. When you introduce kids to the...

Vegetables are more than just food for humans--they've been characters, companions, and even protagonists throughout history. This is a delightful collection of little-known stories about the origins, legends, and historical significance of 23 of the world's most popular vegetables.

A "saladish" recipe is like a salad, and yet so much more. It starts with an unexpectedly wide range of ingredients, such as Japanese eggplants, broccoli rabe, shirataki noodles, Bosc pears, and chrysanthemum leaves. It emphasizes contrasting textures--toothsome, fluffy, crunchy, crispy, hefty. And marries contrasting flavors--rich, sharp, sweet, and salty. Toss all together and voila: an irresistible symphony that's at once healthy and utterly delicious....

Experienced gardeners know the many advantages of gardening up rather than out. Layering plants vertically saves garden space, money, and time which all adds up to a garden that delivers more and better produce for the time and money you put into it. In this work, McLaughlin demonstrates the benefits of vertical gardening and offers secrets to success.

Presents a collection of seasonal vegetable recipes that offers such options as snap pea salad, asparagus quiches with mint, potato soup with garlic and parsley, Swiss chard cannelloni, and broccoli with bacon.

Shares 120 recipes that are inspired by Southern flavors and centered on seasonal ingredients, in a volume that is complemented by anecdotes, gardening tips, and cooking advice.