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This wonderful book teaches children about farming a vegetable garden through the eyes and experiences of a young girl visiting her grandparents. Sophie helps her grandfather through the different seasons while learning about mulching, weeding, bees, edible flowers, catching beetles, harvesting and composting. 
Sophie lives in the city, and her vegetables come from the supermarket. Then she goes to visit her grandparents in the countryside -- and soon discovers how much there is to learn about how things grow! Sophie helps her grandfather through the different seasons, finding out about mulching onions, eating flowers, weeding, bees, making salad, catching beetles, digging, earthing up, picking and composting. When winter comes, Sophie has to go home -- but her grandfather has one last surprise for her. 

你知道我們每天吃的蔬菜，是怎麼長大的嗎？一本與孩子親近土壤、感受大自然的美好繪本。在閱讀中，彷彿與孩子共同擁有著一畝田，一起種了好多蔬菜，歡喜的採收，依著季節、與天地共享，並且津津有味的品嘗著……

很多小孩不知道蔬菜是怎麼長大的！這本書的小主角蘇菲，就是這麼一個生活在大城市的女孩，她對蔬菜的認識只限於平常跟媽媽到街角的超級市場時看到的那些蔬菜。不過，這個暑假，她搭著火車到鄉下的爺爺奶奶家度假。爺爺奶奶有一座蔬菜園，那裡生長著各種豐美的蔬菜。蘇菲非常高興，因為她可以在蔬菜園裡做許多很有趣的事！嗯，蘇菲認識了好多蔬菜的種植方式，她知道種菜好辛苦、一點都不簡單，她也曉得原來很多昆蟲都是幫忙種菜的小幫手，還有冬天來臨之前該怎麼幫蔬菜園做好過冬的準備……；當然，蘇菲終於知道了原來我們吃的蔬菜是怎麼長大的呀！呼，當個小農夫可真是不容易哪！

透過生動有趣的繪本故事，將生態環保意識、在地有機農業概念潛移默化於小讀者心中，引發孩子對蔬菜的興趣。故事角度貼近生活氛圍，準確傳達與自然共存的種菜知識。荷蘭祖母級插畫大師婕爾達‧繆勒代表作品，復古畫風樸實有味，描摩精細彷如小小蔬菜圖鑑。使用德國全蔬菜環保油墨印製，環保愛地球，無毒好安心。