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The Big WHY

“I realized adults have no touch point on how food is actually grown today. They have subconscious beliefs regarding farms that literally go back to childhood based on Old MacDonald’s farm.”

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National Teach Agriculture Day

You can celebrate National Teach Agriculture Day by incorporating ag-accurate books into your storytime. Learn more about why it is so important to teach our children about agriculture in this blog.

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Ag Literacy – More Important Now Than Ever!

Teaching children ag literacy is more important now than ever before! Children and their parents are bombarded with inaccurate and misleading information about their food on a daily basis. It is up to us to combat this.

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Multiracial Heritage Week and Modern Farms

It’s Multiracial Heritage Week, which got me to thinking about the story of how my female character in Modern Farms was developed. If you like behind the scenes looks at book making, this blog is for you.

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