FOOD  DOESN'T GROW

 IN THE SUPERMARKET

Meet the City Guy. He buys his favorite foods—milk, cranberry juice, vegetables—at the supermarket, and never wonders how it all got there. In the video, City Guy is transported to three New Jersey farms to learn where his food comes from and to meet the hardworking farmers who grow it for him. 
Presenting a video from the New Jersey Agricultural Society, "Food Doesn't Grow in the Supermarket."
​This amusing and engaging 28-min video that shows students where their food really comes from—New Jersey farms!

​Your students will laugh at the adventures of City Guy on the farm as they learn about the New Jersey farmers who ensure that their supermarket shelves are full of food for their next meal.


To watch video, https://youtu.be/m8OVPYeOih4
"Food Doesn’t Grow in the Supermarket"
Fun Activities for Students
Get more out of "Food Doesn’t Grow in the Supermarket" video with these fun activities for students to do before, while and after watching. Just click the activity title to download the lesson.

Before the video:
  • All About a New Jersey ________ Farm: The Food Doesn’t Grow in the Supermarket video visits three New Jersey farms: a cranberry farm, a dairy, and a vegetable farm. This graphic organizer asks students to select one type of farm and consider what they already know and what they would like to learn about that type of farming. After the video, they reflect on what they learned.

During the video:
  • Listen Up: Students are asked to listen for 14 words and place them into sentences from the video.
  • Word Detective: Students are asked to listen for words in the video and match them to their definitions.

After the video:
  • Word Works: Students complete a word search for words learned from the video.
  • Time to Remember: Students write facts they learned about Holstein cows from the video.
  • Farm-o-rama: Students match facts from the video with the farmers who said them and color shapes with a code for each farmer.
  • Mag-a-matics: Students solve mathematics problems using information from the video.
  • The City Guy’s Farm Fun: Students play a board game based on facts from the video. They must determine whether a fact on the card they draw is true or false.  If they are correct, they advance the number of steps noted on the card.
  • Teachers Guide