Sustainable Farming & Food Systems
📋 What it is
Sustainable farming grows food while protecting soil, water and wildlife for the future.
🗣️ Coach says
Sustainable farming means feeding people today WITHOUT wrecking the land for tomorrow. Practices like crop ROTATION (varying crops to keep soil rich), cover crops, and reduced tilling protect soil and water and support wildlife. It’s farming that could keep going forever — the opposite of using land up.
🧠 Memory hook
Sustainable farming = grow food + protect soil/water/wildlife for the future (rotation, cover crops, less tilling).
😂 Giggle
The potato didn't want to go to the food processing plant.
It said it didn't want to be mashed by the system.
😲 Whoa!
Rotating crops — like planting beans after corn — naturally refills the soil with nitrogen, so farmers can grow more with less fertiliser, a trick used for thousands of years.
✅ Quick check: How does rotating crops help keep soil healthy?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Different crops use and replenish different nutrients (beans add nitrogen), so rotating keeps the soil rich.
Crop rotation balances soil nutrients naturally.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Imagine planting corn one year, beans the next — the beans refill nutrients the corn used up.