Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm

Texas 2 x 2 List
The Nature Generation's 2025 Green Earth Book Award Short List

Discover how both outdoor and indoor farms sustainably grow the food we eat throughout the year in this vibrant, rhyming picture book.

Outdoor farm,
tractors toil.
Indoor farm,
zero soil.

With energetic, enchanting verse and sunshiny, colorful illustrations, discover how the food you eat is grown both outside--and inside! Join two children as they explore the inner workings of an outdoor farm and an indoor farm. You'll see how a variety of amazing machinery like tractors and drones along with innovative farming techniques yield the wonderful food we all love to enjoy.

Author: Lindsay H. Metcalf
Publisher: Astra Young Readers
Published: 04/09/2024
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 11.20w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781635925913

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2024
School Library Journal 09/20/2024 pg. 1

About the Author
Lindsay H. Metcalf grew up bumping along in her dad's Allis-Chalmers tractor. Lindsay has covered many change-makers as a reporter, editor, and columnist for the Kansas City Star and other news outlets.

A graduate from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a graphic design degree, illustrator Xin Li has also studied interaction design and new media. She was the winner of the SCBWI Winter Conference 2021 Portfolio Showcase.