What is agriculture?

• Farming• Growing crops and raising animals

Farmers Lives in the

New England Colonies

From: McCabe, James D. The Pictorial History of the United States. Philadelphia: The National Publishing Company, 1877.

Postcard showing Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1622, with buildings identified.W.L. Williams, c 1901

Rock Walls in New England

Cold winters made farming hard in the New England colonies.

CornCommon Crop in the New England Colony

Farmers Lives in the

Middle Colonies

This painting, entitled "The Residence of David Twining, 1787," depicts a farm in Bucks County, Pa. (Oil (1845-48) by Edward Hicks. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection,

Colonial Williamsburg.)

WheatCommon Crop in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies

The Mid-Atlantic colonies grew so much wheat that they were called “the breadbasket” colonies.

Farming and wheat processing was often done near rivers.

Why?

Farmers Lives in the

Southern Colonies

Tobacco being harvested in the Virginia Colony. Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 10) (New York: Harper and

Brothers, 1912)

Life of George Washington--The Farmer Painted by Stearns ; lith. by Régnier, imp. Lemercier, Paris. C 1853

South Carolina Rice Plantation

Small Southern Farms

Large Southern Plantations

A plantation is a very large farm.

RiceA common crop in the Southern Colonies

Indigo Plant

Fabric Dyed with Indigo