Sustainable Farming - Lets ask Dr Google by Issy Molineaux & Africa Vernon

Sustainable farmingby

Isabella Molineaux & Africa Vernon Hurlstone Agricultural High School

Farmer Joe Farmer John

Farmer Joe is a carrot farmer.

Farmer John grows wheat and oat crops.

They have both owned their farms for 10 years.

Although they still haven’t discovered

sustainable farming.

Sustainable Farming.100km

Farmer Joe sprays his crop...

Then ploughs his crop...

Leaves his crop to fallow.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Then he fertilizes his crop...

Sprays his crop again...

Then seeds his crop.

Every year!

Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over

AGAIN!

Every year Farmer Joe was baffled.

Why did his carrots keep dying?

R.I.P.Carrots

Why didn’t they grow like they did in the good old days?

23rd march 1972

Framer Joe thought it was time he went and asked farmer John.

G'day Mate!

Turned out Farmer John had many problems of his own.

Farmer John’s crops kept getting taken over by weeds and grasses.

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He tried ploughing them...

But that didn’t work. So he tried poisoning them.

But that just killed his crops!

The last thing John tried was covering the field with newspaper.

=(But Famer John didn’t have enough

and it started to blow away.

Then Farmer Joe had an idea. Why not ask Google?

Google.com

Google was a smart man, and told them many things.

Google.com

Oooh! I see.

Farmer Joe just had to use a thing called

crop rotation

In simple terms, Joe just had to grow other vegetables as well, like corn and cabbages, to make his carrots happy.

This was Crop Rotation.Every year Farmer Joe had to swap

around different types of vegetables

Framer Joe set out his 4 year plan.

My Plan

One year would be his beloved carrots,

Then the next year Joe could grow corn,

After that would be tomatoes,

Then lastly cabbages.

Farmer Joe would repeat this plan so he would be effectively sustaining his

farm.

Farmer John figured out that mulching his crops by simply

buying or cutting up woodchips or covering it with a layer of other plant material, then putting it on the crop is

the BEST way to grow!!

Here is Famer John’s new, nicely mulched crop! He decided to use hay/silage in order to control the

weeds and grasses and put nutrients in to the soil.

To this day, Farmer Joe and Farmer John are happy farmers with their

sustainably grown crops and vegetables

Creditsby

Africa Vernonand

Issy Molineaux

SourcesGoogle .com

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=active&defl=en&q=define:Crop+rotation&sa=X&ei=MlRNTLq0L4ewvgOvv6G7Cg&ved=0CBsQkAE

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