Let Me Show You How AG ED Feels
By: Miss Hendrich
Wood Projects
This gives some different ideas of things that kids can build with 2x4s
Horticultural Resorces
Aquaponics
This tells how to run an aquaponics system and also tells what it is http://www.thecoolist.com/future-farming-how-high-tech-organics-make-food-right/
Composting
this site talks about how and what to compost http://www.somedayilllearn.com/2013/02/01/composting-101/
Raised Gardens
This tell how to and and why to make a raised flower bed. http://www.raisedgardenbedshowto.com/
Eggs
This experiment shows what a full egg looks like with out a shell by dissolving it in vinegar.
http://www.imaginationstationtoledo.org/content/2011/04/how-to-make-a-naked-egg/
Agronomy
This is a lab that can be done to show students how Photosynthesis works.
http://www.elbiology.com/labtools/Leafdisk.html
http://www.elbiology.com/labtools/Leafdisk.html
Podcast About Photosynthesis
This podcast talks about how plants use Photosynthesis
Erosion
This is a lab that show the different types of ground cover and how they affect erosion rate.
http://www.lapappadolce.net/62-esperimenti-scientifici-limportanza-del-verde/
http://www.lapappadolce.net/62-esperimenti-scientifici-limportanza-del-verde/
Youtube Video for Erosion
Song about erosion... and conservation.
Erosion: A love song for soil
Ruminaint Digestion
This is a game that can be printed off for students to how food is digested in a ruminant system.
http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/homeschool-freedownloads/lifesciences-games/ruminationgame.php
http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/homeschool-freedownloads/lifesciences-games/ruminationgame.php
Ruminant video
This video walks you threw and explains how ruminant digestion works
Ruminant Digestion
Meat Preperation
This site will tell you about the different kind of meats safety temperatures and a quick way to tell how done the beef is.
http://amybayliss.com/2011/06/how-to-tell-when-steak-is-done-with-steak-doneness-chart/Pig uses
This web site tells many different uses for pigs abd the different kinds of products from them
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1217794/From-bullets-bread-beer-tambourines-toothpaste--plus-180-things-pig.htmlChicken Thistle farm
Sharing our small farm stories and skills along our farming, gardening and homesteading journey. Vist the farm for an informative and sometimes irreverent tour through our garden, livestock pastures, chicken coop and greenhouse as we live - pasture to plate. Farming topics free range around pastured heritage pigs, broiler chickens and pastured eggs, heritage breed turkeys, an heirloom vegetable CSA and garden, high tunnel / hoop house / green houses, organic and traditional gardening, farm infrastructure, tractors, sustainable energy, permaculture, food preservation and even fence mending.
The Agronomist
Seminar presentations from the Department of Agronomy at Iowa State University, including current research projects and special guest experts on the science of plant genetics, plant breeding, plant physiology, crop production, agricultural meteorology, sustainable agriculture, soil management, soil microbiology, soil physics, and soil chemistry.
Welding Tip
I learned this mig welding technique over 20 years ago and have gotten a lot of mileage out of it. I use it for almost everything because it is simple and it works. What more could you ask for?
For more Down and Dirty mig welding tips, click on the link and you will see a pantload of good tips.
Go ahead.
For more Down and Dirty mig welding tips, click on the link and you will see a pantload of good tips.
Go ahead.
Mig Welding Technique Taught by Old Timer
Four Stroke Engine
line drawing animation of a four stroke engine starting an running. My first attempt. Little surprise at the end
engine animation - 4-stroke start & run
Planting Grain Crops
Learn about the crops Valerie grows on her farm, how and when they are planted, why weather, soil conservation and crop rotation are important. See large corn planting equipment up close and watch from inside the cab as the farmer drives up and down the field to plant a crop.
Planting Grain Crops Video