Whether you’re an experienced gardener, homesteader, or market farmer, this A–Z, soil-to-table guide shows you how to reduce chemical inputs; naturally enrich your growing ecology; and create a hardy, nutrient-dense, and delicious crop.

"There are few gardeners (or farmers) I know who wouldn’t benefit from reading Sally Morgan’s new book. . . . The Healthy Vegetable Garden is a detailed and indispensable resource."—Hobby Farms  

In The Healthy Vegetable Garden, expert organic gardener Sally Morgan explains how to use natural approaches to cope with the challenges of a changing climate through principles from regenerative gardening, agroecology, and permaculture—all to help your green space thrive.

The Healthy Vegetable Garden shows you how to:

• Combat disease and keep pests at bay with natural predators, companion planting, and trap and barrier crops


• Choose the right plants to attract pollinators and pest predators


• Build a healthy soil full of organic matter, earthworms, and mycorrhizal fungi


• Regenerate soil through no-dig practices, composting, cover crops, and mulching


• Boost biodiversity through the use of crop rotations and polyculture


• Rewild your garden by creating a range of habitats, making use of walls and fences, log piles, water features, and wild corners


• Understand plant defenses and use biocontrols


• Make natural barriers, traps, and lures

A healthy, productive garden should work in harmony with nature to produce and protect delicious fruits and vegetables and build a rich soil that is full of life. With The Healthy Vegetable Garden, growers of all levels will start reducing incidents of pests and diseases while creating a verdant habitat—all without the need for fertilizers, pesticides, or weedkillers.

All living things need food to survive. Find out who eats whom, and how we all link together to form a food chain.

• Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.
• Text type: an information book
• Curriculum links: science, geography

Each day we use all of our five senses. We see people, hear sounds, touch objects, smell odours and taste food. Filled with diagrams and photos, this information book by award-winning author Sally Morgan looks at each of our senses in turn and explains how they work and why they are so important.

• White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language.
• Text type: An information book.
• Curriculum links: Science: Ourselves; Sound and hearing.
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.

Discover all the different types of fascinating beetles that can be found around the world – their habitats, what they look like and how they protect themselves – in this highly photographic non-fiction book by Sally Morgan.

Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.

The focus sounds in this book are: /igh/ y, ie /ee/ y, e /w/ wh /v/ ve /l/ le /ch/ t /ai/ a /j/ g, ge /f/ ph /z/ se

Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.

Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.