You will be working closely with cows, and you must know the right ways to care for them. Farmers call cows as ‘foster mothers’ because a great percentage of the milk consumption of humans come from such animal. As years pass, dairy farming has improved. In the 1800s, the milk ...
-The amount of land in DuPage County devoted to farming dwindled toward the end of the twentieth century – down to 11% of the county’s land in 1987 and 95 farms in 1992 – according to theChicago Tribune. -Also in theChicago Tribune, the last dairy farm in DuPage County closed in...
The Incas developed an empire in Peru around the early 15th century. Prior to their demise in the 17th century, the people of this empire build a strong infrastructure, created a postal system, and established an effective agricultural system....
The problem of how to profit from all the slave-produced sugar led to vast increases in rum production, and to growing trade in bitter things made better by a spoonful of sugar – chocolate, coffee and tea. By the 1800s, factory owners in England found that giving exhausted workers an af...
Maria propagates many of the annuals used in Brookside’s gardens. Sometimes she buys from local nurseries and recently she has been bringing in one of her favorite annuals, lisianthus, from Johnny’s Selected Seeds. When you ask Maria what her favorite plants are she answers right away, “...