Frank Carlson Library

Explains the long journey fruit, taking the oranges we eat as an example, has to go through to end up on our plates, including how they are planted, grown then harvested, and then shipped to supermarkets or stores.

An introduction to the basic concepts of food production, distribution, and consumption by tracing the production of orange juice from oranges to the finished product.

A little bird tries to hatch a strange egg before a monkey tells her it is an orange.

"A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. But the problem before her now is much older even than that. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble. The trees are dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic manipulation, and the only solution might be somehow, somewhere,...