HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The New Farmers of America (NFA) began as a national organization for African-American farm youth in 1935 to promote agricultural leadership, character, thrift, scholarship, cooperation, and citizenship.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1935 a meeting was held at Tuskegee Institute to establish the national New Farmers of America organization. George Washington Owens and H. O. Sargent are identified in the various NFA Guides as the founders of the New Farmers of America. Owens was an African American while Sargent was white.

Detailed explanation-3: -Agriculture began independently in both North and South America ∼10, 000 years before present (YBP), within a few thousand years of the arrival of humans in the Americas. This contrasts with the thousands of years that people were present in the old world before agriculture developed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonial farming: 1610–1775. The first settlers in Plymouth Colony planted barley and peas from England but their most important crop was Indian corn (maize) which they were shown how to cultivate by the native Squanto. To fertilize this crop, they used small fish which they called herrings or shads.