Grow It Eat It: Maryland's Food Gardening Network

Grow It Eat It Read It

Welcome to Grow It, Eat It, Read It! Here is your opportunity to watch student reviews of books related to such topics as healthy foods, how plants grow, school gardens, composting, and much more! Each month this page will be updated with new reviews, so make sure to check back in a few weeks for more literary resources to share with other students, teachers, friends, and family.

Each book receives a student rating from 1 to 4 tomatoes. Here is the tomato rating key:


Didn't like it	It's okay	Liked it	Loved it!

Book reviews are brought to you by students participating in the Growing Healthy Habits program at their elementary school. Nutrition education through gardening provides students an opportunity to learn how food grows, to prepare and taste new foods, and to learn why fruits and vegetables are important for good health. This program is a collaboration of the UME Food Supplement Nutrition Education program and Montgomery County Public Schools, with the gardening expertise and hands-on participation by Maryland Master Gardeners.

We currently have video reviews on the following books:

April 2012 Our Super Garden by Anne Nagro
March 2012 A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston
February 2012 First Garden: The White House Garden and How It Grew by Robbin Gourley
January 2012 Compost Stew by Mary McKenna
December 2011 Plant Stems and Roots and Plant Fruit and Seeds by David M. Schwartz
November 2011 Healthy Food by A.R. Schaefer