Poem above is at the beginning of “Green Thumb Activities” from Ruby’s new book, Growing Little Green Thumbs. She will be one of 14 local authors presenting Sunday, Sept 23 from 3:00 to 6:00 in The Lexington Library Celebrates 100 Years.
Books can be good friends that invite you inside and transport you into the fresh air of our world or down the rabbit hole of imaginary places. Visit your local farms, libraries and bookstores to discover where our food is before it arrives in the grocery stores. Our farming roots have been replaced with cords and flashes of technology that have transported us into cyberspace. Returning to your roots and watching plants grow can be as simple as a big clay pot or as large as you choose to make your flower or vegetable garden.
In September, the apples begin to fall from the trees. They are red, green, yellow, autumn rust and sometimes lopsided! Now, why would an apple be lopsided? It just takes a lazy bee that pollinates by reaching from the back of a blossom instead of landing full bloom and tiptoeing through the pollen. Now, you bee informed. Encourage wonderings. If a kiwi is labeled Product of New Zealand, wonder where that may be and look it up. You can learn a lot of geography by checking which state or continent grew the food. Would its price be high if it had to have a plane ticket? Children love stickers, and product labels are excellent to use on a page in the Garden Journal. Check the product labels for coconuts, pineapples, cantaloupes and apples. While you are at it, check out a new fruit, the pluot created by Floyd Zaiger.
Growing Little Green Thumbs has been published. Ron Cowart, horticulturist professor, says, “Children’s minds will awaken to the wonders of plants when their eyes fall upon the words and pictures in this book. The use of a garden journal to introduce children to the writing part of literacy will create treasured keepsakes.”
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