Gardening with Emma

by Emma Biggs and Steven Biggs

Thirteen-year-old Emma Biggs is passionate about gardening and eager to share her passion with other kids! Gardening with Emma is a kid-to-kid guide to growing healthy food and raising the coolest, most awesome plants while making sure there’s plenty of fun. With plants that tickle and make noise, tips for how to grow a flower stand garden, and suggestions for veggies from tiny to colossal, Emma offers a range of original, practical, and entertaining advice and inspiration. She provides lots of useful know-how about soil, sowing, and caring for a garden throughout the seasons, along with ways to make play spaces among the plants.

This approachable book is designed to help younger gardeners participate in choosing plants, observing insects, making simple projects, and growing food. An adult should match each activity to the child’s age and supervise tools, soil amendments, tasting, and outdoor conditions. The projects can be used one at a time for family gardening, school enrichment, or a garden club rather than followed as a fixed curriculum.

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