Read ME Agriculture 2025

Read ME 2025 Volunteer Registration

The 2025 Read ME Agriculture program will be held March 17 - 21, for Maine grades PK-4 students. Inspired by our focus on local agriculture, this year's book is "Farmer Eva's Green Garden Life," written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Kazumi Wilds. Every classroom that participates will receive a copy of the book and accompanying educator’s guide, with aligned classroom activities. To best serve the hundreds of classrooms that participate in Read ME each year, the 2024 program will be a hybrid model where classrooms can choose from in-person and virtual options. Classrooms may choose their own reader or ask MAITC for help. If you are interested in registering as a volunteer reader, please complete this JotForm by February 9, 2024. MAITC will contact you to fine tune your participation if necessary. Thank you for your interest in Read ME Agriculture!
A picture book biography about the pioneering female farmer, Farmer Eva's Green Garden Life is the fifth book in author Jacqueline Briggs Martin's award winning "Food Heroes" series.

Farmer Eva Sommaripa founded Eva's Garden in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a place "so close to the ocean, she can smell the sea, so close to woods she can talk to trees." More than 50 years later she has grown a big green garden life of friends and neighbors, creatures that crawl, fly, and slither, even microbes that create rich soil in the brown underground. Meet farmer Eva, and share the magic, beauty, and science of life on the farm and caring for the land.

Farmer Eva's Green Garden Life is one of the first books to focus on a female farmer. It is also a story connecting farming with nature, ecology, and science. With an Afterword from Eva, Author's Note, Back Matter and Resource page.
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Read ME 2025 Volunteer Registration