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1) Planting
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"In Planting, early fluent readers learn how to begin a garden. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they choose their plants, prepare the soil, and start their crop. An infographic illustrates how a plant grows from a seed, and an experiment offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about planting using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites....
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Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Picture Book Biographies for Hispanic Heritage Month
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Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
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"From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--
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First published in 1975, this classic companion planting guide has taught a generation of gardeners how to use plants' natural partnerships to produce bigger and better harvests. Louise Riotte (1909-1998) was one of North America's most beloved gardeners. Her warm, witty writings on companion planting and gardening lore are American folk wisdom at its finest. Riotte wrote 12 books in her lifetime, including Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening,...
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Offers a guide to planting trees in the United Kingdom, outlining specific types, their characteristics, and where they will thrive. Includes general information about how trees grow and reproduce and how to care for them. Includes resources for further information.
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"Grab a shovel and get ready to plant some trees! From poplars to pines, alder, apple, peach, and plum, this rhyming story introduces the concept of orders of magnitude and celebrates the importance of planting different trees and preserving diverse ecosystems. Nurturing a new sapling is one of the first steps in growing hundreds, millions, even trillions of trees"--
13) Planting Stories
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This inspiring biography tells the story of New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, a woman who championed bilingual literature.
When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpré carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant, she turned her popular retellings into libros and spread story seeds across the land. Today, these seeds have grown into a lush landscape...
14) Church Planting
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The planting of churches is a phenomenon that is widespread among charismatic ministers. It was a major activity of the early disciples. Successful church planting, however, demands skill and embraces multiple factors. Dag Heward-Mills, the founder of a worldwide charismatic denomination with three thousand churches, leads us in analyzing the different components of church planting in this book. This is a training manual for any minister who wants...
15) Planting peanuts
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Ana & Andrew get to start a backyard garden! They go along to the nursery to pick up peanut seedlings. While they're planting, Mama and Papa tell them about one of the first African American botanists, George Washington Carver.
16) Planting seeds
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"The boy wants to plant seeds with his mother. She explains how to plant the seeds correctly and that if you take care of them, they will bloom into pretty flowers. The only problem is the watering can has a hole in it. Maybe Dad can help"--Back cover.
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"New Wild Garden combines new approaches to a more naturalistic design with the practical side of growing wildflowers and shows how to incorporate wildflowers, real meadows and a looser meadow-style planting into gardens and wild spaces. With serious concern into the decline of pollinators and habitats, meadows are currently the focus of enormous creativity. Gardeners, wildlife lovers, professional designers and seed manufacturers are all pushing...
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Recentering the Goal of Pastoral Ministry to Cultivate Christ-Treasuring Church Plants
As churches rapidly expand, Christians risk viewing the church with an entrepreneurial mindset. Church planters can be tempted to fixate on gaining numbers and achieving financial stability as their only metrics for success. They fail to focus on lifting up Christ's people within the church.
In Planting by Pastoring,...
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If you answered "Yes" to at least one of those questions, then keep reading…
There are many great reasons why companion planting is so widespread at the moment. A mix of plants will often have different tolerance levels to disease, which will lower the overall risk of viruses, bacteria, or molds doing a lot of damage to the garden as a whole. Mixing low-growing plants with taller ones can create a natural mulch that will help keep weeds down, minimize...