You Will Farm In Space (You Will ____ Space Book 4)

Back Cover: Space Explorers will also be Space Farmers! In this book, one of the You Will ____ Space Series, future space engineers will learn all about how farms in Space work. How will people grow food, recycle air and water, and use wastes. Inside are ways to grow plants without soil, farm fish and shrimp is small spaces, grow algae in a reactor, and use yeast and bacteria to convert fiber to carbon dioxide for the farm. Readers will learn how animals and fungi convert food and oxygen into growth, energy, and carbon dioxide, and how plants and algae convert carbon dioxide and water into growth and oxygen. Simple experiments anchor key concepts, and advance readers can explore a couple of related math exercises. Playful illustrations make the book fun for all ages, even lap readers, and adults will learn too. Concepts are tied together to show how the farm can support a growing space habitat. Read this book and you too, will learn to farm in space.