Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. Certain standards are required for legal growing, cultivating, and producing the hemp plant. Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. This path lists mindfulness as one of eight required components for cultivating wisdom. Each spring, Wichita families to their villages for another season of cultivating crops. There was also a less important aim of cultivating 'war crops' for the war effort. Some land management practices such as cultivating and logging can be efficiently performed with horses. There they started cultivating vegetables and set up some orchards. Mississippi State University has developed a hydroponic method of cultivating sod. Shenzhen has been very active in cultivating sister city relationships. Burr developed his interest in cultivating and hybridizing orchids into a business with Benevides. Extracting raw silk starts by cultivating the silkworms on mulberry leaves. She credited her friend Hansberry with cultivating her social and political consciousness. This left an opportunity for others to pursue better motorized cultivating. The irrigated areas are run as cooperatives with approximately 2,100 families cultivating small plots.