Question of the Week

Every year when autumn roles around, winter squash makes its appearance at local markets and
in seasonal dishes. Pennsylvania produces acorn squash, butternut squash, Pennsylvania Dutch, and many other varieties of winter squash.

Source: Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network

The Three Sisters are a harmonious trio of corn, pole beans and squash planted together to support and thrive off one another. However, modern agriculture is based largely on monocultures and not companion crops. The term monoculture means: Select the correct response below.

Land devoted to single crops and year-to-year production of the same crop species on the same land.

Land devoted to biodiversity, through rotating crops and having multiple species on one plot.

Land that mimics a natural system and has evolved natural defenses for disease and pests.

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Source: Slow Food

Source: PA DEP

Activity:

Agriculture- Monaculture and Intensive Farming

Background Image From: Cornell University