nuts and bolts — the essential or basic aspects: to learn the nuts and bolts of a new job.
farming — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
gardening — a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated.
horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
agrology — the scientific study of soils and their potential productivity
agronomy — the science of cultivation of land, soil management, and crop production
ploughing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
plowing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
tillage — the operation, practice, or art of tilling land.
tilling — to labor, as by plowing or harrowing, upon (land) for the raising of crops; cultivate.
working — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
agronomics — the branch of economics dealing with the distribution, management, and productivity of land
efficiency — the state or quality of being efficient, or able to accomplish something with the least waste of time and effort; competency in performance.
action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
