Fruits and Veggies
Farm Implements and Practices
Fur and Feathers
Famous Heritage Crop Dishes
Fermentation and Distillation
100

These three crops account for over half of the caloric energy available to humans.  Common names are fine, but all three must be correct!

What are wheat, rice, corn (or maize)?

100

The term for combining trees, livestock and forage.

What is silvopasture?

100

This breed of cattle is resistant to hoof rot, allowing it to help manage wetlands.

What is a Scottish Highland?

100

The main ingredient in poke salad, this native plant becomes poisonous at maturity.

What is American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)?  *Just "pokeweed" is fine.

100

The ingredients of a virgin mimosa.

What is orange juice?

200

An important crop family containing broccoli, kale, and mustard.  Latin only!!!


What is Brassicaceae?

200

A tractor implement used to till soil in preparation for planting crops.

what is a disk harrow or disk plow?

200

Renowned for its flavor and fluffy coat, this breed of fluffy pig was once near extinction.

What is a Mangalitsa?

200

This berry, commonly found in the American west has festivals in Montana, Idaho, and Washington based on it every year.

What is huckleberry

200

Fruits in the genus vitus are used for the distillation of what liquor 


What is wine

300

The largest edible fruit native to the US.

What is a pawpaw?

300

An agroforestry production system popularized in Germany that combines meadows and orchards (proper pronunciation is required and up to the opinion of gameshow hosts :D).

What is Streuobst?

300

Mudbat, Bogsucker, Night Partridge and Labrador Twister are regional top suggestions in a Google search of common names for this wild species.

What is the American woodcock (Scolopax minor)?

300

This group of plants produces the main ingredient in fiddlehead salad.  Colloquial group name (e.g., "pines" or "sheep") is ok.

What are ferns?


300

The French culinary term describing the environmental factors that contribute to a food's phenotypic expression, i.e., its unique taste.

what is terroir?

400

Chioggia is a variety of this common crop species in family Chenopodiaceae.  

What are beets?

400

Crops used to protect and enhance the production of farm fields between rotations of cash crops.

What is a cover crop?

400

A rugged American cattle breed tolerant of the heat and low forage quality of southeastern pine forests.

What is the Pineywoods?

400

The main ingredient in Rocky Mountain Oysters, a popular appetizer in the American and Canadian west.

what are bull testicles?

400

Adding even a single berry from this genus legally transforms a vodka to a gin.

What is Juniperus or juniper?

500

You can thank me for pollinating Agave tequilana.  Must be full species name!  (common name ok)

What is the greater long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis)?

500

the practice of cutting trees so the new growth is very straight.  Also used to suction syrup out of small diameter trees.

what is copicing?

500

This critically endangered breed grows to 2.5 feet tall, making it the tallest chicken.

What is the Malay?

500

The nuts of this tree genus are the main ingredient in Kanuchi, a traditional soup created by the Cherokee.

What is Carya or hickory?

500

Casks for making whiskey, wine and other alcohols are traditionally made from what subgenus of tree?

What is white oak? 

(just "oak" isn't good enough!)