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Growing our food

2006
Learn about the many different places crops can be grown; on trees, in fields, underground and under water. Visit a strawberry farm and almond orchard to see how those foods are grown and harvested. Learn how soil and water are important for growing crops and what equipment is used.

What is agriculture?

2006
Visit different kinds of farms from dairy to sheep raising. Contrast modern and traditional ways of milking cows and collecting eggs. See how cotton is grown and spun, how timber is milled, and how agriculture is necessary to our lives.

Could you stop Josephine?

1988
Josephine the cat leads her master Daniel on a merry chase all over his cousin's farm.

Unusual farms

2005
Introduces young readers to farms where unusual animals and crops are raised, including ostrich, bison, llama, fish, silkworm, tree, and bamboo farms, and features a look at a wind farm.

Farms long ago

2005

Uncle Pat and Auntie Pat

2007
While spending summer vacation on Uncle Pat and Auntie Pat's financially-strapped farm, a child finds a way to generate more income after consulting the wishing well.

Raising less corn, more hell

the case for the independent farm and against industrial food
2005
The author examines the extreme changes in agriculture in America and the ways in which large corporations have taken over pushing small farmers deeper into debt by forcing them to grow too much of the wrong crops.

Old MacDonald had her farm

2012
Old MacDonald teaches the vowel letters as she operates her farm using strange contraptions.

CHARLOTTE'S WEB

2007
Wilbur the pig is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

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