Rowan County Family and Consumer Science Education Agent team with Bath County: 4-H Agent and the Rowan County Senior High School Ag Instructor to provide a week long Day Came in collaboration with AppHarvest.  AppHarvest Educators provided each morning actives on teaching the youth how to grow vegetables by Hydroponics.  Each morning youth also practiced running the growing pod, they cleaned panels as well as planting, eating and harvesting heads of lettuce.

Each afternoon Agents educated youth by field trips in other food source areas in our county. Field trips included; Minor Clark Fish Hatchery, Cave Run Lake, Community Gardens, Farmers Market, Morehead State University Greenhouses, Blackberry Fields and the Rowan County Railroad Museum. The AppHarvest Pod at the Rowan County High School provides lettuce for the countywide lunch program.  Eleven youths participated in the Day Camp, with 100% wanting to sign up for next year’s program.