Where Do Vegetables Come From?

Where do carrots grow What does harvesting mean How do carrots get from farms to the shopsampltBRampgt This series looks at typical examples of different food types and how they are produced for us to eat The books show us that not all food is local and that our food can either come from large farms and factories or small local places we can even grow some foods ourselves Looking at fruit vegetables grains and meat through focusing on how oranges carrots rice and beef are produced we can see that the food we eat often has to go through a long journey from farm to fork