num_pages: 32
description: Eleven-year-old Mara Luz and her family live on a small farm. This year their crop is poor and they may not have enough to eat or to sell for other essentials such as health care school uniforms and books. When Mara's father must leave home to find work she is left in charge of their garden. Then a new teacher comes to Mara's school and introduces her to sustainable farming practices that yield good crops. As Mara begins to use the same methods at home she too sees improvements which allow her family to edge their way out of the grip of the greedy ?coyotes? --- the middlemen who make profits on the backs of poor farmers. Little by little the farms --- and the hopes --- of Mara and her neighbors are transformed as good gardens begin to grow.
language: English
title: The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough
publisher: Kids Can Press