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Ellis Abel Learns.

In my own words

Why I love farms

A cultivated agricultural field stretching to the horizon with a wetland strip along its edge. Real USGS photograph used on the Ellis Abel Learns "Why I Love Farming" page.
A cultivated agricultural field stretching to the horizon with a wetland strip along its edge. U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center · Public domain
  • All of the food starts here.
  • It is soil and water and timing.
  • Farmers use satellites now.

What it really is

Farming is applied biology, chemistry and engineering, done outdoors at scale.

Three things to try today

  1. Grow one seed in a cup.
  2. Measure it every day for two weeks.
  3. Make a line of your measurements.
Student interns harvest and test plants from a growth experiment in the Space Life Sciences Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center. Real NASA photograph used on the Ellis Abel Learns "Why I Love Farming" page.
Student interns harvest and test plants from a growth experiment in the Space Life Sciences Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center. NASA · Public domain

For the grown-up reading this

A growth curve from a bean in a cup is a child's first real time-series.

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