It’s National Pizza Party Day!š We’re inspired by these mini pizzas made by Woodlake Elementary School students in Sacramento. They even made their own pizza sauce! Your š all starts on the farm š! The below resources explain how:
Processing Tomato Fact and Activity Sheet
šMay is National Hamburger Month!š
What does it take to get from pasture to plate? We got a peek at the process with the California Beef Councilās tour – check out our behind the scenes photos below.
Want FREE beef related resources? We have those too. Download or order yours today: Beef Fact and Activity Sheet
More! 14 different cattle/beef related resources!
Goats and sheep help with open space management! From Santa Barbara to Sacramento regions and beyond, California cities are using animals to graze on weeds which helps reduce a regionās potential fire load.
Read more about the practice HERE!
#FunFactFriday: An average acre of California farmland can produce 21 to 27 TONS of strawberries! Thatās a lot of fruit.
Berries are May’s Taste and Teach commodity of the month. Want more information on these California grown fruits? Check out the resources below!
Strawberry Ag-Bite – using strawberries to learn about the pH scale
Itās great to be back!
More than 900 students and 44 teachers from 22 different schools participated in El Dorado County Farm Day!
Each student learned about how plants grow and started a desktop garden, something that will grow into their very own mustard plant. Want to grow one yourself? Weāve got a resource for that. Find it HERE!
Seaweed supper for dairy cows? You read that right. The California Department of Food and Agriculture recently approved the use of seaweed feed shown to reduce methane emissions from cow burps. Read the fascinating findings and get other diary cow resources from California Farm Bureau’s Ag Alert and The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Check out your future peaches! Behind the scenes action for our Super Saturday Virtual Field Trip. There’s still time to sign up, do so HERE!
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