Presents fifty-five gardening projects for children, with recipes, reading recommendations, creative projects, and language arts activities for each lesson.
When Mrs. Rose grows a prize crop of vegetables guaranteed to win all the blue ribbons at the County Fair, she is inspired to a generous act involving the gardens of her friends.
Interconnecting stories featuring ten-year-old Lanie Holland, who discovers the wonders of nature in her own backyard when she helps her aunt plant a garden of wildflowers to attract birds and Monarch butterflies, but runs into trouble with the neighbor next door.
His plot in a community garden brings 10-year-old Jackson Jones more zucchini than he cares to see and the unwanted attention of a bully, but when a company plans to destroy the garden, Jackson turns his attention to trying to save it.