All About Sugar Beets

With each Flat Aggie report, I’ll be putting together a list additional resources, websites, recipes, books, and activities.  Use this with Flat Aggie’s Visit to a Minnesota Sugar Beet Farm.

Classroom Activities & Resources

• Vermont Harvest of the Month: Beets & Rutabagas
• Illinois Ag in the Classroom, lesson book “Candy, Culture & Creativity“
• Minnesota Ag in the Classroom, crop cards

Videos

• From Sun to Sugar (video, how to get sugar from sugar beets)
• From America’s Heartland (video) “Sweet Beets“

Articles

• From Minnesota Ag in the Classroom, (article) “Pulp as Biodegradable Plastic“
• American Sugar Beet Association, What is a sugar beet?
• How Beet Sugar is Made