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Farmcraft® 2025: Land Demand

NASEF Farmcraft® is a global outreach and educational program that uses the popular game Minecraft to enhance understanding of global agricultural challenges, and how farmers provide items like food, clothing, and shelter. It can be integrated into class curriculum or afterschool programs for students age 8-18. 

Farmcraft® 2025: Land Demand is focused on learning to weigh different factors in farming and understand the tradeoffs between environmental sustainability, economic prosperity, and food security. In this year’s Land Demand challenges, participants will learn about non-food uses for crops and explore how to balance those while also addressing food security needs. They will play Farmcraft® with a goal of providing residents with specified targets of food, clothing, and shelter in a certain amount of time. Register below!

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Farmcraft® 2025: Land Demand

NASEF Farmcraft® is a global outreach and educational program that uses the popular game Minecraft to enhance understanding of global agricultural challenges, and how farmers provide items like food, clothing, and shelter. It can be integrated into class curriculum or afterschool programs for students age 8-18. 

Farmcraft® 2025: Land Demand is focused on learning to weigh different factors in farming and understand the tradeoffs between environmental sustainability, economic prosperity, and food security. In this year’s Land Demand challenges, participants will learn about non-food uses for crops and explore how to balance those while also addressing food security needs. They will play Farmcraft® with a goal of providing residents with specified targets of food, clothing, and shelter in a certain amount of time. 

Register below!

REGISTER

TEAM GUIDE QUICK START GUIDE

Timeline of events

Registration

Dec. 16, 2024 - April 4, 2025

Live Streams

Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26
March 12, 19, 26
April 2, 9, 23

Preseason

February 3, 2025 - March 7, 2025

Regular Season

March 10, 2025 - April 18, 2025

Challenges due

April 18, 2025

Awards Show

April 23, 2025

Prizes

1st Place

Senior, Junior, and All Ages
Prize valued at USD $500 

2nd Place

Senior, Junior, and All Ages
Prize valued at USD $250 

3rd Place

Senior, Junior, and All Ages
Prize valued at USD $200 

Random Draw

Two randomly drawn teams per region that complete the criteria for the regular season will each receive a prize valued at USD $50, shared among team members.

Farmcraft® Archives

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Farmcraft® 2024

Thank you to all the participants who joined us for Farmcraft® 2024! Farmcraft® 2024 was focused on the impact of digital technology on agricultural productivity.  Many of the agricultural productivity increases in the last few decades have directly resulted from the adaptation and adoption of digital technologies to farming! View this season's page which includes the new world download, winners, educator lessons, previous livestreams and more! 

View the Farmcraft® 2024 page

Farmcraft® 2021

This first season of Farmcraft® was focused on applying and adapting agricultural production techniques in different unique environmental biomes. 

View the Farmcraft® 2021 page

Farmcraft® 2022

The theme for 2022 was climate change, environmental sustainability and biodiversity conservation.  

View the Farmcraft® 2022 page

Farmcraft® 2023

The theme for 2023 was focused on food trade and food security, asking the question “What happens to food once it leaves the farm?” Participants will learn about the choices that farmers must make before even planting their crops, thinking about which crops to grow, who will eat the crops, where the crops must be sent, and how to deliver those crops.

View the Farmcraft® 2023 page