A Garden on Top Of the World
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Red is a homeless man who takes up temporary residence in a pigeon coop on the roof. After Red talks about seeds in the birds’ droppings, Jonnie gets interested in heirloom seeds. She knows little about how food grows because meals come in packages ordered online and delivered by drone. Dishes are manufactured in the home using 3D printers.
Armed with a new understanding of old-fashioned garden-grown food, Jonnie is determined to create her own garden on the roof of her building. Along the way, she meets a former cryosphere scientist, a botanist with an urban indoor garden, and Drew and Darr, twins her own age who live in the next building. Darr is also intersex and identifies as a boy.
Jonnie’s search for who she is and what she might be able to offer the world is one that will resonate with readers of all ages. The information she learns about healthy food, sustainable agriculture, and urban gardens may inspire readers to start their own gardens.
A cautionary tale with depth and humor, A Garden on Top of the World is environmental fiction for ages 12 and up. Includes resources on gardening, urban gardens, heirloom seeds, and organic foods.
Pages: 112 pages
Publishing Date: January 2019
Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 cm
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 978-619-7458-29-9
Category: Eco-Fiction
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5 in stock
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Red is a homeless man who takes up temporary residence in a pigeon coop on the roof. After Red talks about seeds in the birds’ droppings, Jonnie gets interested in heirloom seeds. She knows little about how food grows because meals come in packages ordered online and delivered by drone. Dishes are manufactured in the home using 3D printers.
Armed with a new understanding of old-fashioned garden-grown food, Jonnie is determined to create her own garden on the roof of her building. Along the way, she meets a former cryosphere scientist, a botanist with an urban indoor garden, and Drew and Darr, twins her own age who live in the next building. Darr is also intersex and identifies as a boy.
Jonnie’s search for who she is and what she might be able to offer the world is one that will resonate with readers of all ages. The information she learns about healthy food, sustainable agriculture, and urban gardens may inspire readers to start their own gardens.
A cautionary tale with depth and humor, A Garden on Top of the World is environmental fiction for ages 12 and up. Includes resources on gardening, urban gardens, heirloom seeds, and organic foods.
Pages: 112 pages
Publishing Date: January 2019
Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 cm
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 978-619-7458-29-9
Category: Eco-Fiction
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About the Author:
Virginia Aronson is the Director of Food and Nutrition Resources Foundation. She is the author/coauthor of more than 40 published books. She helped an executive chef at the White House write his bestselling cookbook. She wrote 5 books for the founder of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard University School of Public Health. She’s penned memoirs for executives and drug addicts, athletes and diet doctors, cancer survivors and everyday folks with stories to tell. Publishers include Random House, Doubleday, Penguin, Macmillan, and the small presses. Genres include adult nonfiction, educational books for kids, eco-fiction, poetry and short fiction.
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Rising sea levels. Organic and GMO labeled packages. 3D printers producing meals. Overcrowded cities. Thank God, those silly doomsday predictions won’t affect me. Or will they?
For now, Greenland, the world’s largest island has the least amount of inhabitants. But what will 2066 bring? To get a taste of what an overcrowded, genetically modified populated Greenland will look like, Virginia Aronson’s book, A Garden on Top of the World will whet your appetite with warnings of unsavory truths. Along with rising tides, growing homelessness and lack of fresh food Aronson describes a future meal as, “Three packages of 3D foods a day will contain all the nutrients a body needs to grow and stay healthy.”
After reading the warning signs in this thought-provoking book, A Garden on Top of the World, I am determined to stay informed and do my part to reduce the incoming tide.
-- Diane Vernitsky Jellen
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