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NASEF Farmcraft®: Land Demand

NASEF Farmcraft® is a global outreach and educational program that uses the popular game Minecraft to enhance understanding of global agricultural challenges. 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.

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Farmcraft® 2025 

NASEF Farmcraft® is a global outreach and educational program that uses the popular game Minecraft to enhance understanding of global agricultural challenges. 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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Build Challenges

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Build Challenge #1: The "What" and "Why" of Crops

The word “crops” is not limited to one type of plant or a single purpose for growing those plants. A wide variety of crops are grown around the world with a variety of purposes.

Design a farm in your Minecraft world to model and highlight the crops grown in your area or region and explain what each of these crops are used for.

Consider ways to build or present those ideas/concepts that do not exist in a “typical” Minecraft world. Explain the content you included in your build and why you chose to include it.

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Submit your challenge by Friday, September 19, 2025 to be featured on our next stream!

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Timeline of events

Registration

September 1, 2025 - November 26, 2025

Live Streams

September 10  & 24
October 8 & 22
November 5 & 19

Build Challenges

September 10, 2025 - October 17, 2025

Regular Season

October 10, 2025 - December 1, 2025

Regular Season Challenges Due

December 1, 2025

Finals Stream

December 10, 2025

Prizes

Win prizes for regular season challenges!

1st Place

Senior | Junior
Prize valued at USD $250

2nd Place

Senior | Junior
Prize valued at USD $200 

3rd Place

Senior | Junior
Prize valued at USD $100 

Random Draw

Seven randomly drawn teams across all divisions that complete the criteria for the regular season will each receive a prize valued at USD $50, shared among team members.

Watch the previous streams of this season!

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Resources for Educators

Farmcraft Archives

Farmcraft 2024: Digital Harvest

In 2024, Farmcraft 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!

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Farmcraft 2023: Harvest Haul

In 2023, Farmcraft 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.

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Farmcraft 2022: Field Yield

In 2022, Farmcraft was focused on applying and adapting agricultural production techniques to different unique environmental biomes, while considering environmental sustainability and biodiversity conservation.

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