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Milk doesn't just appear in your refrigerator, nor do apples grow in the bowl on the kitchen counter.
As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.
Before we eat, many people work very hard-planting grain, catching fish, tending farm animals, and filling crates of vegetables. With vibrant illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Mary Azarian, this book reminds us what must happen before food gets to our tables to nourish our bodies and spirits.
Before We...
Milk doesn't just appear in your refrigerator, nor do apples grow in the bowl on the kitchen counter.
As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.
Before we eat, many people work very hard-planting grain, catching fish, tending farm animals, and filling crates of vegetables. With vibrant illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Mary Azarian, this book reminds us what must happen before food gets to our tables to nourish our bodies and spirits.
Before We Eat also includes back-of-book features about school gardens and the national farm-to-school movement.
Before We Eat has been adopted by the USDA's Agriculture in the Classroom program.
