8 Super Easy Ways to Educate About Ag
There are many ways you can educate about agriculture in your area! Here are 8 great ideas.
Growing Green Challenge Winners
Learn about what the 2019 Fall Purple Plow Challenge Winners projects were!
Purple Plow Challenge: Growing Green Winners Announced
The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture has recognized the winning teams in the fall 2019 Purple Plow Challenge, Growing Green.
Successful Project Based Learning Curriculum Using Purple Plow
Marian Handlin, M.Ed. is an AgriScience teacher from Delaware. She writes about how her school successfully implemented Purple Plow Challenges into their STEM curriculum.
Find Ag Lit Resources
Looking for the best ag literacy resource for your volunteering event? We put our resources together in one searchable list!
Fresh Food and Farm Facts!
We have updated our Food and and Farm Facts book to include updated Ag Census data!
Mushrooms 101: Putting the Fun in Fungus!
Did you know that mushrooms are not technically plants, but are fungi? Here's everything you need to know about them!
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Two New Ag Card Games!
We have two new card games to make learning about agriculture FUN!
Grains: Fuel for life!
Did you know that grains are the edible seeds of specific grasses? We as humans get about 48% on average of our calories, or food energy, from grains! Grains also can be used to feed livestock and manufacture cooking oils, fuels, cosmetics and even hand sanitizer. True cereal grains include wheat, oat, rice, corn, barley, sorghum, rye and millet.Grains are annual plants, which means they have only one growing season per year and yield one crop. Let 's talk about a few grains we use every day!
National Read a Book Day
National Read a Book Day is September 6th! Read an Accurate Ag Book!
