Good Garden

Maria Luz's family is not doing well. Their farmland is not producing enough food for the family. Her father must go to find work to earn enough money to buy seeds and fertilizer. While he is gone, Maria Luz has a new teacher who shares secrets of good gardening, including feeding the soil with compost, terracing, growing cash crops, and getting past the middleman. All of these greatly benefit her family.

A story set in Honduras.