Fresh from the farm Flash Cards

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Title: Fresh from the farm
Description: Words associated with agriculture
Number of Cards: 20
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Author: mccormickm24
Created: 2002-03-25
Tags: middleschool
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    • Side 3
    • industrious
    • working very hard
    • husbandry
    • careful management of resources;thrift
    • husk
    • outer layer of many fruits and seeds
    • hydroponics
    • growing of plants without soil by using water that contains necessary nutrients
    • arable
    • fit for plowing
    • kernel
    • grain or seed like that of wheat or corn
    • rustic
    • belonging to the country; plain, old-fashioned
    • livestock
    • animals such as cattle, sheep, horses, or hogs that are raised for home use or profit
    • pesticide
    • substance use to kill insects and rodents
    • fallow
    • plowed and left unseeded
    • rural
    • in the country
    • flax
    • plant with stems that separate in threadlike parts that can be woven into linen
    • reap
    • to gather a crop by cutting
    • disk
    • to work the soil with a disk plow
    • till
    • to plow
    • seasonable
    • suitable to the season
    • acreage
    • number of acres
    • horticulture
    • science or art of growing plants and vegetables
    • harrow
    • plow with iron teet used to break up ground into fine pieces before planting seeds
    • harvest
    • to gather in grain or other food crops