wunder beta🚜 From Farm to Table!
Follow your food on its amazing journey from farms and fields all the way to your plate, meeting the plants, animals, giant machines, and hardworking farmers along the way.
What you’ll learn
- Where Breakfast Comes FromTrace how breakfast foods like bread travel from wheat fields to flour to the food on your table.Bread begins as wheat, a grass grown on farms. A mill cracks the grains into flour — one bushel, about a million grains, bakes roughly seventy loaves. Bakers mix flour with water, salt and yeast, whose bubbles make the dough rise. Cereal, oats, sugar and fruit all start on farms too.
- Milk's Amazing JourneyFollow milk's journey from a dairy cow through the tanker truck, pasteurization, and into your carton.Milk comes from dairy cows, milked twice a day on most farms and giving close to eight gallons each. A refrigerated tanker carries it to a dairy, where pasteurization holds it at 161°F for fifteen seconds to kill harmful germs. Then it is bottled, driven to shops, and some of it becomes cheese, butter and yogurt.
- Fruits, Veggies, and MachinesLearn how fruits and vegetables grow in seasons and meet the amazing machines that harvest our food.Fruits and vegetables ripen in seasons — the commonest strawberries are even called June-bearing. Vegetables are different plant parts: roots, leaves, flower buds, seeds, and in the potato a swollen underground stem. Combines cut, thresh and clean grain in one pass, and tractors pull the tools that do most other farm jobs.
- The Farmer's YearUnderstand the farmer's yearly cycle of planting, growing, and harvesting, and how food travels to your store.Farmers plant in spring, tend the growing crops through summer, and race to gather the harvest in fall. Afterwards the food is packed onto trucks, trains, ships or planes and kept cool until it reaches the grocery store and your table.
Questions this course answers
What plant does bread begin its life as?
Bread starts as wheat, a tall grass grown on farms. The grains at the top of each stalk are used to make bread.
What are wheat grains ground into to make bread?
Wheat grains are crushed at a mill into fine, soft flour, which bakers then use to make bread.
What does a baker add to make bread dough puff up?
Yeast is a tiny fungus that fills the dough with air bubbles, making bread rise and become soft and fluffy.
Where does most of your breakfast originally come from?
Cereal, oats, sugar, and fruit all begin as plants or animals grown by farmers. Almost everything we eat starts on a farm.
Where does the milk you drink come from?
Milk comes from dairy cows, which eat grass and grain and are milked twice a day on most farms. An average dairy cow in the United States gives close to eight gallons a day.
How does milk travel from the farm to the factory?
A milk tanker truck carries thousands of gallons of cold milk from the farm to a dairy factory.
Grounded in trusted sources
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service — Milk Production (February 2026)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Grade "A" Pasteurized Milk Ordinance
- Kansas Wheat Commission — What Does a Bushel of Wheat Mean to Me?
- University of Minnesota Extension — Harvesting strawberries
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service — Dairy 2014 study
- John Deere — X9 Series combine specifications
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