Random News Flashes

**Slow Foods get a boost from the SC Department of Agriculture. Check out their website promoting Certified South Carolina (grown) produce. (click here) This site includes lists of seasonal fruits and vegetables, useful links, recipes, and more.

**List of Local Farmer's Markets - April 8, 2008 from the Post and Courier (http://www.charleston.net)

**On Saturday, May 3rd, 2008, The Parent's Journal on SC Educational Radio Network reviewed the book, Camp Out! The Ultimate Kids Guide by Lynn Brunelle, author and Emmy-winning television writer for Bill Nye, the Science Guy. This book has lots of great ideas for natural and/or science-oriented fun like having kids put old socks on over their shoes and walk around in the woods and then wetting the socks and sprouting the seeds on the socks. Click here for a review of this book from a book review blog.

We are putting in a request for purchase for this one at our library! Remember, that if you are a patron of Charleston County Public Library, you can ask the library to purchase books, movies, music, etc, too.

KS/STA