Crops
This fruit grows in bunches on trees in warm climates and is a good source of potassium.
What is a banana?
This is the process of using worms and scraps to make soil richer.
What is composting?
The process of collecting ripe fruit or vegetables from their plants.
What is harvesting?
This animal gives us bacon and pulled pork.
What is a pig?
I am often purple and bloom in the late spring. My smell is used in soaps and candles.
What is lavender?
This yellow crop is used for food, fuel, and animal feed.
What is corn?
A renewable energy source often used on farms to reduce fossil fuel use.
What is solar/wind power?
This small hand tool is used to dig holes for planting.
What is a spade/trowel?
Chickens are part of this animal group used for meat and eggs.
What is poultry?
I have teeth but cannot bite. Farmers use me day and night.
What is a rake?
This fruit grows on vines and is the main ingredient in wine.
What are grapes?
This sustainable tool used for drinking usually disintegrates into your drink.
What is a paper straw?
A plant that comes back year after year is called this.
What is a perennial?
This breed of dairy cow is black and white.
What is a holstein?
I’m planted, but I’m not a tree. I’m harvested, but I’m not a fish. I’m often golden and wave in the breeze.
What is wheat?
This plant is grown underground and is often mashed, fried, or baked.
What is a potato?
This is a term for the environmental impact left behind by food production, processing, and transport.
What is a carbon footprint?
This is used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life surrounding crops.
What are pesticides?
The bones and collagen of animals can be made into this.
What is gelatin?
I live underground, but I'm not shy,
Pull me up and I might make you cry.
In salad, soup, or sauce I go—
What root veggie do you know?
What is an onion?
This crop is a major source of vegetable oil and also used in livestock feed.
What is soybean?
This term means loss of topsoil due to wind or water.
What is erosion?
The act of moving a seedling to a garden.
What is transplanting?
This greenhouse gas is produced by cows during their digestion process.
What is methane?
You ride me across the field with care,
Turning soil and flipping air.
I’m not a horse, but I have a plow—
Can you guess what I am now?
What is a tractor?