This fifth title of author Jacqueline Briggs Martin's award-winning Food Heroes series features Farmer Eva Sommaripa, who 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. One of the first picture books to focus on a woman farmer, this is also a fascinating story connecting farming with nature, ecology, and science. Included is an Afterword from Eva, Author's Note, Back Matter and Resource page.