Children's books about farmer's markets

Ten Titles on Tuesday: 5/4/21

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Mini issue! Farmer’s markets

We are super lucky to live in a place where equitable access to fresh food options is increasing constantly (thanks to the tireless attention and work of people smarter than I), and to be privileged in all the ways that make farm-to-table food normal, accessible, and affordable for our family. Trying to do the math, we’re in…I don’t know, I think our 12th year of CSA membership. We frequent farmer’s markets year-round as a matter of course rather than a special occasion because, duh, they’re amazing, and because we want our children to understand that everything on our plates comes from the soil and the plants and the animals. (I am honor-bound to tell you happy cows come from Wisconsin, not California 😉 )

I’m grateful to all the farmers we know and work with and buy from, all the people whose brains and hands and hearts grow the good food we eat — the folks who make this process visible and knowable to our children, who will of course inherit not only this earth but our habits and the ways we live on it (for better or worse).

Because I really enjoy sharing tiny topical lists with you whenever the fancy strikes me — and because it’s finally the season for it; our little village farmer’s market opens for the summer in two days! — I’ve got a small handful of books for you about farmer’s markets. There are many out there, but these are the ones we truly enjoy:

• Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall (a fall book, but also a good explanation of the process of how goods get to market)

• On the Farm, At the Market by G. Brian Karas

• Fresh Delicious: Poems from the Farmer’s Market by Irene Latham (poetry)

Fresh Delicious: Poems from the Farmer’s Market by Irene Latham

• To Market, To Market by Nikki McClure (also check out To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda, which is about grocery shopping and was beloved by both my toddlers)

• Rah, Rah, Radishes by April Pulley Sayre (while not farmer’s market-specific, when I had babies I used this book to explain the food we were seeing there, while also making it seem like vegetables are unspeakably wonderful — I am a mom, after all)

• Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmer's Market by Michelle Schaub (poetry)

• Farmer's Market Day by Shanda Trent
  

If you want to take a side trip into how food gets on your table: 🐄

• Milk: From Cow to Carton by Aliki (nonfiction)

• It’s Milking Time by Phyllis Alsdurf

• Before We Eat by Pat Brisson (a beautiful book to encourage gratitude, even mindfulness, and a outstanding read at the beginning of a meal)

• Right This Very Minute: A Table-to-Farm Book about Food and Farming by Lisl H. Detlefsen

• The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons (this is also an excellent Reading Rainbow episode)

Happy marketing!

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Read good books and take good care 😘
Sarah
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