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Alfalfa: A Home for Animals and Ice Cream for People
This interactive lesson teaches students about alfalfa production in California and how it benefits consumers and contributes to the economy and the environment. It also shows how alfalfa production uses water resources efficiently, how California's climate gave rise to the development of water for irrigation, and how this development led to dairy and cattle industries and the need for alfalfa. Unit is aligned to the Content Standards for California Public Schools.

Grades 4-6
Free

California Farm Water Coalition
6133 Freeport Boulevard, 2nd Floor
Sacramento, CA 95822
Phone: (916) 391-5030
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