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Potatoes on Rooftops ensures food production in the city
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Posted on March 12, 2021 by michellelovatosbookreviews, world's first book color commentator, book reviews with a twist

After a year of abstinence, this Southern California city girl is excited Big Brother might finally allow restaurants to open for inside dining. (I didn’t even know “inside dining” was a term. It’s been a business-destroying year and has forced me to rethink the way I access food.
Sometimes I wish I was a toddler again, eating cereal out of a baggie in my car seat, banging my hands against my brother without retribution, and reading fun picture books designed to teach me about the big, bright, beautiful world. Or maybe it would be better to be a grade-schooler, eyes wide open to the wonderous universe of learning opportunities available.
Regardless, Potatoes on Rooftops, by Hadley Dyer, tops my menu of perfect reads.
Illustrated by Michael Martchenko, this informative picture book educates readers about non-traditional ways to enjoy city gardening. Potatoes on Rooftops provides readers with an overview of several already-established programs that teach local youth the fine art of creating a self-sustaining food-growing environment for themselves and generations that follow.
Dyer shares a Detroit high school program that teaches kids to grow food and raise chickens and a Tokyo bank vault that was converted into an underground greenhouse and a Nairobi local youth that turned a part of a slum into a garden to help feed local families.
This title is filled with gorgeous photos and illustrations and perfect for a school library. It is an excellent spring-board book for inspiring kids to learn the science of botany. This title is perfect for school club organizers who can use its model to help countless minds learn how to create self-sustaining environments for the future.
After all, you never know when the world is going to plunge into a pandemic and leave society without line cooks, indoor air-conditioned, plastic dining chairs, and all the soda our hearts desire on the counter behind our table.
Don’t tell anyone, but during the past six months in my region, an underground rope of culinary rebels hid their indoor dining so well during, they actually stayed in business. It was a prohibition for food. Wild. I never thought I’d be part of that rebellion. But, admittedly, I know that rope intimately.

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Happy are those who respect the Lord and obey him. You will enjoy what you work for, and you will be blessed with good things. Psalm 128: 1-2

Perfect for kids who love in the city and need to see that growing things is possible everywhere—or for kids who live elsewhere so they can see the same thing.

It’s short, but is chock full of information. Intended for middle grade-high school age students.