Seeds & Soil: A Year in the Garden — A Horticulture Reference for Parents & Kids (Our Working Home Book 1)

Deliver the complete truth in every subject—twice. Once for the grown-up mind, once for the growing one.

Seeds & Soil is Book One of Our Working Home, a family reference built on exactly that. This volume follows a full year in the garden, from first seed to last harvest.

Turn to any page and you’ll find two versions of the same subject, side by side. The Big Hand page carries the real mechanism: why soil is alive, how water climbs a stem against gravity, what actually happens when a leaf meets sunlight — sourced, not simplified. The Little Hand page carries the doing: the squeeze of soil in a fist, a bean split open to watch it grow, colored water crawling up a stalk overnight. Every child’s page ends in a hands-on Try It.

Across 47 topics and six parts, this book follows a full growing year: The Ground, The Seed, The Growing, The Flower & Fruit, The Harvest & Return, and Tools & the Working Garden. A Plant Family Album sits at the heart of the book, and thorough back matter includes a grown-up’s quick reference, a kid’s fillable field notebook, a two-voice glossary, and a sources section — because you should be able to check where the guidance comes from.

Inside:

• 47 topics, each taught in full on two facing pages
• Real botany and soil science, sourced from cooperative extension guidance
• Hands-on activities for kids on every spread
• A full growing year, from first seed to last harvest
• Fillable field notebook pages for tracking a real garden
• Warm, hand-illustrated watercolor art throughout

Whether you read it side by side or apart, nobody gets the easy version. Seeds & Soil is for families who want to grow something together — and understand exactly what they’re growing.

A casebound keepsake edition in premium color — made to live on the potting bench and the kitchen table, and be handed down.