natural foods

Offers information on reducing one's carbon footprint by eating sustainable foods, covering eating locally, gardening, organic standards, reducing food waste, and more. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

Introduces organic gardening and explains how to build a compact, no-dig garden using food scraps and household waste.

Readers find out how these three substances act both in agriculture and the environment, where to find them, how they affect health, and what to do to be as healthy as possible.

A discussion of energy conservation, reviewing the history of cultivation, and looking at how people can develop a more sustainable lifestyle through their eating habits by going organic, eating locally, using fair trade food, and green cooking.

Can you tell the difference between natural and man-made objects? Beginning readers will discover these differences and more in Natural or Man-Made.

Offers information on reducing one's carbon footprint by eating sustainable foods, covering eating locally, gardening, organic standards, reducing food waste, and more.

Contains 150 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on topics related to organic food and farming, sustainable food initiatives, and local food production and consumption, and includes photographs, a chronology, and a bibliography.

Explains what sets organic food apart from other food and what benefits it offers, along with why organic food costs more and what other drawbacks there are to going organic.

"Explains what is means to organic, and it looks at the environmental, economic, and health issues involved in this trend."--Publisher.