6th Grade Field Trip - Bates Nut Farm - November 8, 2012

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Bates Nut Farm Educational Tours

We offer a variety of group tours and educational experiences that are enjoyed by all ages.

“Nuts For You” Tour: Year round except in October

Located just minutes from Escondido, a visit to Bates Nut Farm gives your group the opportunity to spend time on the farm.  Learn about the history of the Bates family and farm, starting in 1921 with Gilbert Bates and his “Walnut Slope Ranch”. Learn about how the ranch evolved from walnut trees to the retail business it is today. Find out how about how nuts get from the tree to your table.  Your tour includes:

• Bates Nut Farm History
• California Agriculture Nut History
• Learn how various nuts are grown and harvested
• Identification of various nuts
• Nutritional values & uses
• Behind the scenes tour of the roasting, packaging and storage area at Bates Nut Farm
• Marketing from the farm to the market
• Hayride
• Bag of corn to feed the animals
• Personal snack bag

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Notes From My Cell: 

Has seeds and start with flowers. Are fruits.

All pumpkins are girls...

Sisters of pumpkin: 
Knucklehead, ghost pumpkin, fairy tail or Cinderella pumpkin, on inside of pumpkin is orange no matter what color on the outside.

Cousins of pumpkin, squash, turbin squash, watermelon, gourds, cucumber - all fruit.

Big mac pumpkin - Plant on June 1. Harvest on Sept 27.

90-120 days to grow pumpkins.

"Jack be little" pumpkin takes 4 months to grow. 

Bottom of pumpkin was flower. 

Agriculture - farming of vegetable fruits nuts. CA #1 agriculture state in US. 

Nuts grow on trees. Almonds, Pistachios, Cotton. CA leading state to produce cotton to ship. 

Will never find a raw pistachio. Has to be roasted because of fungus.

How to harvest nuts- big tractor and shake the tree and nuts fall to ground. Machine vacuum them up off the floor. 

Small amt of almonds has as much fiber as an apple. 

Cashews are grown in Brazil on trees. On tree is fruit. One fruit produces 1 cashew. Fruit is very toxic to touch. Can eat the fruit on inside. Only workers become immune to it.

Pecans. Georgia, North Carolina.

Brazil nuts, pine nuts, hazelnut. Macadamia nuts have the highest fat content. 

Peanuts are root vegetables. They are related to green been. Legume.