“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” 
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

In this lesson, students will:

• Read about our nation’s historic connection to agriculture from early colonization to present day
• Analyze the evolution of agricultural practices in America over time
• Understand how our present understanding of agriculture is a product of our time, and it will continue to evolve