Right This Very Minute: A Table-to-Farm Book About Food and Farming
About
How food gets from farm to table is explained in this fun and fast-paced introduction to the farms and farmers that grow the food we eat every day.Whats that you say? Youre hungry? Right this very minute? Then you need a farmer!It only takes a minute to feed a hungry kid and teach them about where food comes from in this informative and fun picture book about agriculture. Throughout the story, families in their busy kitchens or at the table wonder where the delicious foods theyre about to eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert come from followed by colorful, detailed spreads showing the operations and people involved in farming those foods. More than a dozen different types of farms are featured throughout, including a citrus grower testing oranges for ripeness, how a family-owned strawberry farm runs a u-pick business, how maple syrup is collected using a new tubing system instead of buckets, how wheat is planted, how a cranberry farmer saves berries from a frost, how a peanut farmer tests soil, how a dairy farmer cares for their animals, how lettuce is harvested, how beef farmers work with cattle on the range, and many more examples of agriculture in action.
Why it’s great
Every bite on your plate traces back to a farm, and this fun, fast-paced picture book follows that trail in reverse, from the food kids eat right now back to the farmers, animals, and crops that produced it. With a bouncy rhythm and bright illustrations, it helps the youngest readers connect dinner to the land. It's a delightful first lesson in just how much work and planning feed a single meal.
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