Farming: From Seed to Table

Meet Dani, a sixteen-year-old who just signed up for her school's AGRICULTURE program — and she had no idea how much of her daily life was already connected to farming. Agriculture is the practice of growing CROPS and raising animals to produce food, fiber, and other goods that people use every day. It is one of the oldest human activities on Earth, dating back roughly ten thousand years to when people in the Middle East first began cultivating GRAIN plants like wheat and barley. Before farming existed, humans were NOMADIC, meaning they followed wild animals and gathered plants just to survive. The shift to settled farming changed everything — it allowed communities to grow, store food for hard times, and eventually build the CIVILIZATIONS we study in history class.