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Vegetative Practices

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Make a table like the one below to insert your data. Use your hand lense first to just look at the fruit/vegetables closely, and wait for instructions for when you may eat them to observe taste.

Fruit/Vegetable Name

Observations (Site, Smell, Texture, Taste, etc…)

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There will be no nuts, grains, dairy, or strawberries being passed out. Are there any food allergies to vegetables or fruit that I should be aware of? You do not have to finish eating everything passed out.

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Where do you think fruits and vegetables get their nutrients from?

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Some of their nutrients comes from the soil, let’s look a little more closely at crop soil relationships!

  • Using your crop cards, place the crops on the scale as best you can. Go one at a time and let everyone at your table participate.

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Every plant requires taking of nutrients from the soil to grow, but plants require different nutrients. Write down 3 ideas or techniques farmers can use to minimize depleting soil nutrients?

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Kiss the ground (37:00 - 44:11)

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Write and share what type of fruits, vegetables, and farming techniques they mostly seen grown and used in their communities. (you did this in an earlier lesson, please expand on your knowledge from what you have learned today.