I have a mushroom farm set in Mexico in my picture book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. The location was deliberate. The illustrator, Robert Sae-Heng grew up in Mexico and his family had a mushroom farm! What an incredible coincidence! Have you ever wondered how to grow mushrooms? Most commercial mushrooms…
Category: STEM/STEAM
Science non fictions books and fun experiments for kids to do at home.
My Urban Foraging Class
I took a foraging class with David Craft. He’s a cancer researcher in Cambridge, MA in his free time when he’s not foraging. He also wrote the book Urban Foraging: Finding and eating wild plants in the city. This is my second foraging class. The first one I forced my kids and husband to come…
48 Children’s Books for Kids Who Admire Astronauts!
Space… the final frontier. I’ll admit that Star Trek got me really into space travel and thinking about what lies beyond our own solar system. These days when we think of earlier times when the predominant belief was that the earth was flat, we think this is such a naive perspective. We also thought the…
45+ Great Dinosaur Books for Kids (and videos)
Here’s our favorite dinosaur books both stories and non-fiction.
My Oldest is included in the MIT Technology Review
My oldest was a sophomore at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) when the Covid-19 lockdown hit. Her school shut down right before spring break and she decided to take the second semester off. The timing was perfect because she had landed an internship at MIT Media Lab, a place she was really excited to…
Supertree Grove in Singapore featured in Food for the Future
The Supertree Grove is featured in my picture book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng, and published by Barefoot Books. It was a thrill to see the SuperTtee Grove for myself in Singapore. This is the smaller grove: My daughter, who is spending a semester abroad at…
Food for the Future in EdibleBoston! 4 page insert!
Barefoot Books has partnered to create edible for KIDS, a four-page insert that is in EdibleBoston and other cities that are part of the Edible Community magazine series. Here’s a video of the four-page spread for Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. Have you seen this in your city? Please…