Milway, Kaite Smith The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough, illustrated by Sylvie Daigneault. Kids Can Press, 2010. $18.95.
High in the hills of Honduras, Maria and her family can’t make a living on their family farm. Between poor soil, bad weather and poor prices from the coyotes (local middlemen, bosses), the family may lose their farm. Papa heads to the city to make money for new seed. And a new teacher comes the village, showing new planting techniques and giving Maria courage to try something different – and to take their crops to the city, cutting out the coyote.
As Wangari Maathai has worked to change Kenya, Don Elias has worked to help the farmers of Honduras. While some might dismiss this as “fuzzy” environmentalism, Milway’s book is a celebration of good farming practices in places unravished by agri-business.
EL, MS – ESSENTIAL.
Cindy, Library Teacher.
High in the hills of Honduras, Maria and her family can’t make a living on their family farm. Between poor soil, bad weather and poor prices from the coyotes (local middlemen, bosses), the family may lose their farm. Papa heads to the city to make money for new seed. And a new teacher comes the village, showing new planting techniques and giving Maria courage to try something different – and to take their crops to the city, cutting out the coyote.
As Wangari Maathai has worked to change Kenya, Don Elias has worked to help the farmers of Honduras. While some might dismiss this as “fuzzy” environmentalism, Milway’s book is a celebration of good farming practices in places unravished by agri-business.
EL, MS – ESSENTIAL.
Cindy, Library Teacher.
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