Go on a tour of eco-friendly farms around the globe! From urban gardens to farms under the sea, discover the many different sustainable ways people have been growing food for centuries, and new innovations that are battling the effects of climate change on farming. Rhyming text and inset boxes with definitions for new vocabulary words make the topic accessible to young learners. End matter includes detailed information about each country's farming practice, sustainable farming, and more. ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal - Massachusetts Book Award Longlist - Junior Library Guild Gold Selection - dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023 - Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best - 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist - Green Earth Book Award longlist - Nautilus Silver Winner Children's Picture Book Nonfiction  - Imagination Soup 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids K-Gr 3—This is an ambitious undertaking—showing children how sustainable farming can provide healthy food that is in harmony with nature. The book profiles 12 farms around the world and showcases practices used by Indigenous people as well as cutting-edge projects in farming. A salt farm on Kaui and a fish farm along the Jurena river in western Brazil show the importance of looking back to earlier harvesting practices that focused on the rhythms of the seasons as well as the natural gifts of the Earth. Some of the new farming ideas use native plants (the Food Forest in Kenya) or store rainwater run-off (human-made pits in India) to create farms or practices attuned to the local ecosystem. There are also farms using modern breakthroughs, such as a four-story greenhouse in Singapore or an undersea hydroponic farm in Italy, to expand ideas of farming. Every farm appears in a spread with a rhyming couplet to describe it and one definition bubble. Given the brevity of the rhyming couplet, readers must use the back pages to fully understand the concept of each farm. The illustrations are reminiscent of Christian Robinson's work, depicting diverse people and environments with flat areas of vibrant color and simple lines. VERDICT An exciting overview of traditional and innovative farming techniques that will warrant repeated reading, for casual browsing or classroom use.—Sally A. James Food for the Future was selected for the Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best books of 2023. Food for the Future made Imagination Soup's 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids list. Mia Wenjen enjoys boxing, gardening and yoga. Because Japanese cucumbers are not available where she lives, she sprouted them from seed and convinced her boxing gym friends to grow them as well. She lives in Boston, USA, with her husband, three children and Golden Retriever. She blogs on parenting, education and children’s books at PragmaticMom.com and runs the nonprofit Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Robert Sae-Heng is an illustrator and artist living in London, UK, with his fantastically large cheese plant, Elvis. He has Mexican and Thai origins, and spent his childhood on a tiny farm in Mexico. He first began using imagery to communicate because he spent his early years unable to hear. Robert now works with mixed media, combining hand-drawn elements with a digital finish.