How Food Grows is an educational website and soon-to-be book that illustrates, through photos and text, how the food we eat gets from seed to table...

 

 

Agriculture has evolved into big industry in the 21st century.  Most people see the fruits and vegetables they eat neatly displayed on grocery store shelves or in their supermarket and never imagine how they grow, how they’re harvested or where in the world they come from.

 

 

Subdivisions and suburbs have pushed out the small farms that used to dot the countryside, so even kids living outside metropolitan areas haven’t had the privilege of seeing how their food grows. And most adults are familiar with how common foods grow - like apples and oranges - but few have ever seen a pineapple plant or a cranberry bog or know that chocolate grows on a tree.

 

 

How Food Grows is the first book in a series titled How Things Grow which will broaden its subject matter from food to books on organisms living in the sea, on land, and in the air.