Crop Families

This week in class we made Crop Family Report Presentations where each group could pick different crop families out of the list of families Chenopodia (Amaranthaceae), Apiaceae (Umbellifera), Asteraceae (Compositae), Allium, Brassica, Cucurbitaceae, Legume (Fabaceae), Solanacea, Gramineae (Poaceae), Lamiaceae, Convolvulaceae, Rosaceae, Liliaceae and make a report of the family. Once we picked are family we would find the crops, how to care for the family, the local info (from farm or local farm), challenges (pests), and the historical info on the family. Each group member also made a crop example and picked one crop from the family to research. Each family has a different types of crops. A little information on some families like the Cucurbitaceae are made up Watermelon, Cucumber, Squash, Pumpkin and the Gramineae family crops are wheat, oats, barley, and rice. The Chenopodia crops are beets chard quinoa and Solanaceae crops are tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes. There are many more families that have different crops groups. As we finished the presentations each group would rotate to other groups and took notes on what their families crops were and extra interesting information on the family. Then next week are notes will come in use when we have a crop family scavenger hunt in the farm. 

-Rylee Sankowich