A COMPOST STORY

Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow

A Compost Story

By Linda Glaser

Photos by Shelley Rotner

Millbrook Press (Lerner), 2010

ISBN # 978-0-7613-4911-2

Nonfiction

Ages 5-8

"At our house, we grow lettuce and tomatoes, pumpkins and potatoes, strawberries, sunflowers, cucumbers, and cauliflowers. And we use garbage to do it. This is where it starts—in our compost bin. It's just a big box. But amazing things happen here.

Making a compost bin is a great way to recycle organic matter into soil and this simple book e...