TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Far Away Close to Home 4 CHAPTER 2 The Road to Skinny Farm 12 CHAPTER 3 What It Takes 18 CHAPTER 4 Getting to Market 24 TAKING INFORMED ACTION 30 GLOSSARY 31 FURTHER READING 32 INDEX 32
CHAPTER 1 Far Away Close to Home When farmer Tim Redmond visits fifth-grade classrooms in Ann Arbor Michigan he brings bags and bags of spinach Yes spinach That leafy chlorophyll-rich stuff that rabbits and squirrels love to munch Tim doesn’t bring just one type of spinach he brings two One batch is fresh big-leaf overwintered greens grown on his farm Skinny Farm of Scio The other batch is imported greens traveling as much as 4 weeks to reach the desks of these midwestern kids 4 21st century skills library
While spinach was first cultivated in the Middle East its first recorded use comes from China around the year 650 ce 5 5
