Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World

by Mia Wenjen, Robert Sae-Heng (Illustrator)

Overview

★ “An exciting overview of traditional and innovative farming techniques that will warrant repeated reading, for casual browsing or classroom use” – School Library Journal

Take a trip around the world to discover how eco-friendly farms are changing the future of food! From rooftop gardens in bustling cities to underwater farms beneath the waves, explore the many innovative ways people are growing food sustainably to combat climate change.

• Highlights sustainable farming practices around the world
• Supports new vocabulary learning with definitions on each spread
• Endnotes further explore the farming practices of all the countries featured

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646868407
Publisher:	Barefoot Books
Publication date:	05/23/2023
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.16(d)
Age Range:	3 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mia Wenjen enjoys boxing, gardening and yoga. Because Japanese cucumbers are not available where she lives, she sprouted them from seed and convinced her boxing gym friends to grow them as well. She lives in Boston, USA, with her husband, three children and Golden Retriever. She blogs on parenting, education and children’s books at PragmaticMom.com and runs the nonprofit Multicultural Children’s Book Day.

Robert Sae-Heng is an illustrator and artist living in London, UK, with his fantastically large cheese plant, Elvis. He has Mexican and Thai origins, and spent his childhood on a tiny farm in Mexico. He first began using imagery to communicate because he spent his early years unable to hear. Robert now works with mixed media, combining hand-drawn elements with a digital finish.

Editorial Reviews

A dozen sustainable farms around the world offer intriguing possibilities for the future of agriculture” – Kirkus Reviews

★ "An exciting overview of traditional and innovative farming techniques that will warrant repeated reading, for casual browsing or classroom use." –Sally A. James, School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2023-02-25
A dozen sustainable farms around the world offer intriguing possibilities for the future of agriculture.

Simple four-beat rhyming couplets concisely describe a plethora of farming methods old and new around the world, many of which will be especially useful in light of climate change. A salt farm on Kaua, an urban food forest in Nairobi, a Yemeni honey farm, a garden on the roof of Boston’s Fenway Park—all grow different edibles suited to their environment. A fish “farm” in Brazil is made up of the Enawenê-Nawê people’s handwoven fish traps held in place by a temporary dam. In contrast, the Solar Supertrees (among many vertical farms and gardens in Singapore) are technological marvels, providing solar power and collecting rainwater. A couple of underwater hydroponic biospheres in Italy and an Australian aquaculture oyster farm are followed by circular gardens in Senegal, “where Sahara and savanna meet,” and Indian dobas that collect water for dry-season use. A helpful feature of the book is the pronunciation guidance, and on every page, unobtrusive insets define terms like erosion, compost, brood, and sustainable. Attractive collagelike compositions use vivid blue, green, tan, and other hues to depict diverse people, with just enough detail to grab the eye. The backmatter puts the various farms on a world map and compresses into a few pages a lot of information on the farms and techniques. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A unique introduction to traditional and innovative agricultural options. (Informational picture book. 3-8)

Kirkus Reviews