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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. Lively photography and Emma's own writing (with some help from her gardening dad, Steve) capture the authentic creativity of a kid who loves to be outdoors, digging in the dirt.
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Emma Biggs, an enthusiastic 13-year-old with a love of gardening, shares her just-for-kids advice on growing a food garden, including theme garden ideas and tips for preparing, planting, and caring for a garden, along with creative ways to have fun doing it. Emma Biggs and her father Steven Biggs are the co-authors of Gardening with Emma. A 13-year-old with a passion for gardening, Emma shares her kid-focused gardening ideas at events, on radio shows, and on her blog. In 2017, she grew 68 different varieties of tomatoes. Steven is a writer specializing in gardening, farming, and food production, and has published articles in magazines including Trellis, Small Farm Canada, Garden Making, and Edible Toronto. He lectures frequently at gardening events across Canada and blogs at www.stevenbiggs.ca. Emma, Steven, and the rest of their family live in Toronto.
Dig, Discover, and Grow Cool Things
Eat some weeds, build a bug vacuum, create a beanpole teepee, grow a rainbow garden, plant a place to play, make a miniature garden! Why I Wrote This Book
Chapter 1: Garden ABCs
Chapter 2: Great Gardens for Kids
A to Z Garden
For Color Lovers
Rainbow Veggies
Grow a Flower Stand
Tickling Garden
Totally Tasty Tomatoes
Grow a Pizza
A Garden of Sounds
A Giant's Garden
Cool Containers
Weird and Wonderful "Wow!" Garden
Make a Play Space
Garden on Straw
Birds, Bees, and Butterflies
Build a Bug Garden
Backyard Fruit Plants
Flowers that Look, Smell, and Taste Good
Small Surprises
Delightful Discoveries
Chapter 3: A Bit of Practical Advice
Chapter 4: Fall and Winter Garden Fun
Metric Conversions "It is so refreshing to discover a kid's gardening book written by a kid for other kids …. Emma's practical gardening tips are a win for the whole family!" - Sarah Pounders at kidsgardening.org
"Emma Biggs inspires kids of all ages to get their hands dirty, their feet muddy, and their thumbs green!" - Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N
"Emma shares a green wisdom and knowledge that is as deeply rooted as an oak tree. She is sure to inspire other kids to dig in and grow with their gardens." - Sharon Lovejoy, author of Sunflower Houses, Roots Shoots Buckets Boots, and Trowel Error
"Simply flipping through Gardening with Emma had me ready to get my hands dirty and get absorbed in new projects with my kids. Along with fun photos and illustrations, this book has a breadth and depth that makes it destined to become that tattered-with-loving-use, go-to reference and gardening-debate resolver for children and parents for many years to come." Brad Long, chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author
"Chock-full of startlingly deep and fresh insights, this book has a whole lot to teach about how to make garden
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. Lively photography and Emma's own writing (with some help from her gardening dad, Steve) capture the authentic creativity of a kid who loves to be outdoors, digging in the dirt.
This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
Emma Biggs, an enthusiastic 13-year-old with a love of gardening, shares her just-for-kids advice on growing a food garden, including theme garden ideas and tips for preparing, planting, and caring for a garden, along with creative ways to have fun doing it. Emma Biggs and her father Steven Biggs are the co-authors of Gardening with Emma. A 13-year-old with a passion for gardening, Emma shares her kid-focused gardening ideas at events, on radio shows, and on her blog. In 2017, she grew 68 different varieties of tomatoes. Steven is a writer specializing in gardening, farming, and food production, and has published articles in magazines including Trellis, Small Farm Canada, Garden Making, and Edible Toronto. He lectures frequently at gardening events across Canada and blogs at www.stevenbiggs.ca. Emma, Steven, and the rest of their family live in Toronto.
Dig, Discover, and Grow Cool Things
Eat some weeds, build a bug vacuum, create a beanpole teepee, grow a rainbow garden, plant a place to play, make a miniature garden! Why I Wrote This Book
Chapter 1: Garden ABCs
Chapter 2: Great Gardens for Kids
A to Z Garden
For Color Lovers
Rainbow Veggies
Grow a Flower Stand
Tickling Garden
Totally Tasty Tomatoes
Grow a Pizza
A Garden of Sounds
A Giant's Garden
Cool Containers
Weird and Wonderful "Wow!" Garden
Make a Play Space
Garden on Straw
Birds, Bees, and Butterflies
Build a Bug Garden
Backyard Fruit Plants
Flowers that Look, Smell, and Taste Good
Small Surprises
Delightful Discoveries
Chapter 3: A Bit of Practical Advice
Chapter 4: Fall and Winter Garden Fun
Metric Conversions "It is so refreshing to discover a kid's gardening book written by a kid for other kids …. Emma's practical gardening tips are a win for the whole family!" - Sarah Pounders at kidsgardening.org
"Emma Biggs inspires kids of all ages to get their hands dirty, their feet muddy, and their thumbs green!" - Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N
"Emma shares a green wisdom and knowledge that is as deeply rooted as an oak tree. She is sure to inspire other kids to dig in and grow with their gardens." - Sharon Lovejoy, author of Sunflower Houses, Roots Shoots Buckets Boots, and Trowel Error
"Simply flipping through Gardening with Emma had me ready to get my hands dirty and get absorbed in new projects with my kids. Along with fun photos and illustrations, this book has a breadth and depth that makes it destined to become that tattered-with-loving-use, go-to reference and gardening-debate resolver for children and parents for many years to come." Brad Long, chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author
"Chock-full of startlingly deep and fresh insights, this book has a whole lot to teach about how to make garden