Canola, wheat, potash oh my!  Our class learned about all of these things and more during our visit to the Food Farms last week!  This extremely fun trip is organized by Agriculture in the Classroom and allowed us to learn all about plants and agriculture in Saskatchewan with our very own hands!

We had to travel a little ways out of the city to a farm field.  We spent the whole morning at the field, going to 9 different learning station.  Each learning station focused on a different topic about agriculture including:

• potash and how it is mined and how it is used for fertilizer
• farm safety and being careful around machinery and chemicals
• dairy farming and how cows are taken care of
• uses of canola
• uses of wheat and how farmers protect their crops from disease
• planting herbs
• planting vegetables
• uses of soy beans

We got to do a lot of hands on planting of herbs and vegetables and we even got to to plant a row of vegetables that will be grown and harvested for the Saskatoon Food Bank.

It was a very fun field trip that helped us learn even more about plants and soil and the important role that agriculture plays in Saskatchewan!