Under Your Feet

17

Crop rotation

The countryside

is often a colourful

patchwork pattern

because farmers grow

a different crop on the

same land each year.

This helps to keep the

soil fertile.

Wheat crops

Wheat seeds are planted in the

autumn, become rapidly growing

seedlings in the spring, and the

ripe crop is ready to be harvested

(picked) in the summer.

Field to fork

Once crops have been

harvested, they are taken to

be prepared into food. Wheat

grains are ground into flour to

make bread, pasta, and more!

Wholemeal flour

uses the whole

grain. White flour

only uses some of it.

After wheat, fodder

(animal feed) crops

might be planted.

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