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Paper Makes Holiday Cards Happen
It’s Christmas Card Day. Thirteen billion cards, letters, and packages get delivered by the U.S. Postal Service during the holiday season. That’s a lot of paper! Speaking of paper, make your own with our hands-on Making Recycled Paper activity. Find the instructions above and download them HERE!
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Healthy Soils Week
Food starts with soil! It’s Healthy Soils Week. First stop, a trip through a soil tunnel to dig into the importance of soil for the over 400 different commodities grown in California. Next, check out our various resources related to soil: Plant Nutrients-Nitrogen Fact Sheet found HERE Agricultural Water Fact Sheet found HERE
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Helicopters and the holidays?
Yes, sometimes helicopters are used to lift harvested Christmas trees from farms. Find fascinating facts and lesson plans about trees, forests and more, links below. Forest Resource Fact Sheet: Find it HERE Discovering Christmas Trees: Grades K-2 Discovering Christmas Trees: Grades 3-5 Credit: Withrotor Aviation, Inc.
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Agriculture… à la carte
Your Weekly Ag Update: California mushroom farmers are being impacted by an unexpected shortage…straw! Read how and why wheat straw is a key ingredient in growing mushrooms and how farmers are dealing with the shortage. Find the article HERE Want more on mushrooms? Download our Mushroom Fact Sheet HERE.
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Fun Fact Friday
It’s beginning to look a lot like…citrus! It’s citrus time in California. Guess what? One medium orange provides 100% of your daily Vitamin C needs. Get more facts with our Citrus Fruits Fact Sheet HERE!
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Tree Time
It’s December! While Christmas trees may be on your mind, forests are on ours. Did you know forests cover more than one-third, or 33 million acres, of California? Download our What’s Growin’ On for more information on this renewable resource. Even better, request a FREE set of What’s Growin’ On (Benefits of By-products edition) newspapers…
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Imagine this…Story Writing Contest Winners!
Regional Winners of the 2021-2022 Imagine this…Story Writing Contest have been announced! Find them HERE
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Donate Today!
It’s Giving Tuesday! Do you know where your food, fiber and fuel come from? These students do. Your generosity helps us provide free, standards aligned, educational resources for teachers so students can LearnAboutAg! Donate Today: California Agriculture in the Classroom \
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Agriculture… à la carte
Weekly Ag Update: Attracting good bugs to eat the bad bugs! Many California vineyards use insectaries, defined as a place for the keeping or rearing of living insects, to combat bugs that spread disease and impact crops. Read more about the practice here in this article found HERE!
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Black Friday Special
Don’t let your classroom go out to pasture –Beef it up with our Black Friday Special! From math and science to careers and by-products, this round-up of resources has you covered. Request your free set today! It’s a deal! Our Black Friday Special includes: -Class Set of What’s Growin’ On? The Benefits of By-Products-Beef Boasts…
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