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4) Hurry!
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A young girl helps her grandparents get the hay in before a rainstorm ruins the crop.
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Seed biology 101 -- Growing plants for seeds -- Harvesting and cleaning seeds -- Seed-storage know-how -- All about germination -- Sowing seeds and raising transplants -- Breeding your own varieties -- Saving vegetable seeds -- Saving herb seeds -- Saving flower seeds -- Advanced seed saving: nuts, fruits, and woody ornamentals.
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A girl tells the tale of making hay as Mom uses a mower for mowing grass, then a tedder for aerating the grass, and eventually a baler. Told in rhyme and illustrated with fabulous art by Joe Cepeda, each part of the process is a celebration of summer, farming, and the mother-daughter relationship. Back matter includes a glossary.
9) On the farm
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"What can we spot on the farm? Shine a light behind the page and see... From feeding the animals in winter, to harvesting the crops in fall, let's take a look at what happens throughout a year on the farm"--Page 4 of cover.
10) Watercress
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CR - AAPI Picture Books
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Red Clover 2022-2023
Red Clover Book Award Nominees 2022-2023
CR - Immigrants welcome! Picture Books
Red Clover 2022-2023
Red Clover Book Award Nominees 2022-2023
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While driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's Chinese immigrant parents spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. They stop the car, grabbing rusty scissors and an old paper bag, and the whole family wades into the mud to gather as much as they can. At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family just get food from the grocery store, like everyone else? But when her mother shares a bittersweet story of her...
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The Haymakers is an epic-the history of man's struggle with nature as well as man's struggle against machines. It relates the story of farmers and their obligations to their families, to the animals they fed, and to the land they tended. But The Haymakersis also an elegy-to a way of life fast disappearing from our landscape. In the most heartfelt essays, Hoffbeck chronicles his own family's struggle to hold onto their family farm and his personal...
14) Harvest
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"Learn about the busiest time of year on the farm. From crops to festivals, harvests make fall fun!"--
17) Hay balers
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Introduces young readers to the hay balers used on farms, discussing what they do, how they operate, and why their job is important to farm animals.
18) Raylan: A Novel
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When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out...
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Learn rainwater harvesting techniques. In California and other regions affected by drought, agriculture is suffering from a lack of water and farms are being abandoned at an alarming rate. But some people have developed solutions to capture the rains that DO fall. In this state and in many other dry regions around the world, land restoration helps water penetrate healthy soils and in turn increase crop yields. Even in dry areas, water which typically...
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