D.C. Agriculture | Unit 1-3 Review

What type of farming uses practices such as crop rotation, animal manure for fetilizer, and the use of animal power?

Traditional farming

What type of farming invests in mechanized equipment, tills soil, and uses pesticides and herbicides?

Conventional farming

What type of farming uses sustainable farming practices like using compost and animal manure, not using pesticides/herbcides, and won’t compromise the future generation to meet their needs?

Sustainable farming

What kind of farmer grows for themselves and their family?

Subsistence farmer

What kind of farmer is based off a business model, raises livestock, and grows crops, to make sales and export them?

Commercial farmer

What kind of farmer is motivated by making profits driven by the market, grows crops because of their value, and are similar to subsistence farmers, but on a larger scale?

Entrepreneurial farmer

What kind of farmer is interested in devloping products and activies to attract tourists, grows out of interest, and experiments on what they grow?

Recreational farmer

What is the word to describe a farm and its buildings?

Farmstead

A building’s roofs is covered with some plants. What urban growing method is this?

Green roof

A city balcony is seen to have some plants placed in pots. What urban growing method is this?

Container gardening

On the blacktop of a school’s playground, a large container with plants is set on top of the surface. What urban growing method is this?

Raised bed

A building’s rooftop has a couple raised garden beds with a reservoir on the bottom. A white cord leading from the reservoir to the bottom of the garden bed can be seen. What urban growing method is this?

Wicking

What farming method practices the growing of one crop species at a time?

Monoculture

What farming method excludes the use of synthetic substances (pesticides, GMOs, etc)

Organic

What farming method uses a small plot of land to produce a lot of a crop w/ small upfront investments?

SPIN (Small Plot INtensive)

What farming method works with natures’s biodiversity to produce foods with no human input?

Natural farming (aka do-nothing farming)

What farming method grows crops or pasture without disturbing the soil through tilage?

No-till

What farming method has crops grown in stacked rows?

Vertical farming

What farming method accomplishes a goal guided by how nature works and is mostly about working with nature?

Permaculture