Little Naturalists: George Washington Carver Loved Plants

Introduce your brilliant baby to agricultural scientist, inventor, and environmentalist George Washington Carver.

George Washington Carver was born the son of a slave near the end of the Civil War. When he was a baby, he and his mother were kidnapped by raiders. His mother was never found, but he was brought home. His mother’s owners became his foster parents, raising him and his older brother. As he grew, George worked many jobs and tried many schools to learn everything he could, eventuall...