Crop Families

This week in Sustag we have been working a lot on our crop family presentations, and we are learning more about the different families of crops and how to identify them. Through our presentations, we are teaching each other about the different families of plants and their characteristics, when to plant them, care and common pests of the different plants in each family. My group is the Apiaceae family and includes common plants like carrots, celery, and dill. We have gone through all of the old data from the SustAg farm, and we have actually planted and harvested a lot of these crops. We have harvested 15.96 pounds of CAL crops of celery this semester, and 18.12 pounds of COMP crops of celery, as well as 8.35 pounds CAL crop of carrots this semester, and 0.28 pounds COMP crop of carrots. I have included a picture of kale in my bed, which is in the Cruciferae family of plants and strawberries in my bed, which are in the Rosaceae family. We have been out on the farm watering a lot and taking care of our seedlings and they are starting to come up! 

-Sarah Young