{"id":638,"date":"2020-06-04T16:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/?page_id=638"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:56:11","slug":"farming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch23\/farming\/","title":{"rendered":"More to explore about farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>just before her was the new farm-house Uncle Henry built<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the end of Chapter 23, Dorothy returns to the farm where she lives with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Explore these websites and videos to find out more about farms.<\/p>\n<p>How important is farming for our modern world?<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How farming planted seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Evl0tQAdXI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>So when did farming begin? Well most archaeologists think farming started about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factmonster.com\/history\/us\/dk-history-early-farming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10,000 years ago in an area at the eastern end of the Mediterranean<\/a>. But new evidence says it might even be as long ago as 23,000 years ago!<\/p>\n<p>Farming started in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/z82hsbk\/articles\/z33487h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Britain about 4000 years ago<\/a>, a time called the Neolithic (which means New Stone Age), and there&#8217;s a really famous Neolithic farming village that still exists at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/history\/general-history\/skara-brae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skara Brae<\/a> in Orkney.<\/p>\n<p>Farms around the world produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agfoundation.org\/news\/10-thing-that-didnt-make-you-think-farm-until-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all sorts of crops and animal products<\/a>\u00a0that we use regularly, such as eggs, wheat, corn and meat. But some are a little more strange, like goats producing spider silk in their milk &#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Goats with Spider Genes and Silk in their Milk - Horizon: Playing God - BBC Two\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B0zT9CN3-50?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; and elephant dung coffee!<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Would You Drink Elephant Poop Coffee?\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MrPmLZEy6_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Challenge yourself!<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered about being a farmer, here&#8217;s your chance. Your challenge is to play the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/interactive\/top-crop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Top Crop game from National Geographic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also look at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Help with Challenges<\/a> page to come up with your own farming challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just before her was the new farm-house Uncle Henry built At the end of Chapter 23, Dorothy returns to the farm where she lives with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Explore these websites and videos to find out more about farms. How important is farming for our modern world? So when did farming begin? Well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch23\/farming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More to explore about farms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-638","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638\/revisions\/1535"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}