Understanding Agriculture

Understanding Agriculture
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1988-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book responds to the widespread recognition among experts that our educational system needs to change in order to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to ensure the future vitality of U.S. agriculture. Understanding Agriculture focuses on agricultural literacy (education about agriculture) and vocational agricultural education (education in agriculture). The section on agricultural literacy addresses the teaching of science through agriculture, teacher education and training, model educational programs, community support, and agricultural career exploration programs. Vocational agricultural education is examined in terms of program enrollment, availability and content, supervised occupational experiences, the Future Farmers of America program, and teacher education and supply.

Right this Very Minute

Right this Very Minute
Author: Lisl H. Detlefsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781948898003

A delicious celebration of food and farming sure to inspire readers of all ages to learn more about where their food comes from - right this very minute! Here are the stories of what farmers really do to bring food to the table.

John Deere, That's Who!

John Deere, That's Who!
Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250158311

Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that’s who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that’s who! Beautiful illustrations—including spectacular landscapes—reflect the time period and bring John Deere's remarkable story to life.

Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table
Author: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1430130016

A former basketball star, Farmer Will Allen is an innovator, educator, and community builder. When he looked at an abandoned city lot he saw a huge table, big enough to feed the whole world. This is the inspiring story of his determination to bring good food to every table.

Farmers taking the lead: thirty years of farmer field schools

Farmers taking the lead: thirty years of farmer field schools
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9251315698

The Farmer Field School (FFS) has been one of the most successful approaches developed and promoted by FAO over the past three decades, empowering farmers to become better decision makers in their own farming systems. Initiated by FAO in 1989, and subsequently adopted by many other organizations and institutions, the FFS programs constitute one of the most important “results of the collective action of millions of small-scale farmers” that FAO has supported. FFS is an interactive and participatory learning by doing approach that offers farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolks, foresters and their communities a place where they can learn from each other,share experiences, co-create knowledge and try new ways of doing. Participants enhance their understanding of agro-ecosystems, resulting in production systems that are more resilient and optimize the use of available resources. FFS aims to improve farmers’ livelihoods and recognize their role as innovators and guardians of natural environments. FFS has attained plenty of outstanding achievements in all aspects of agriculture and rural development.

Who Grew My Soup?

Who Grew My Soup?
Author: Tom Darbyshire
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2009-12-15
Genre: Farmers
ISBN: 9781412745444

Go on a magical adventure with young Phin Quinn to find out who grew his soup. BB with dust jacket, 32 pages. Illustrated by renowned American illustrator C.F Payne.