Kentucky Soybean Board educates students about soybeans and gives them samples to carry home!Students learn about the origin of sheep and goats and about their market. Hickman County 3rd and 4th grade wave to a UAV as it flies overhead to film students. According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, Hickman County had 298 farm operations on 141,131 acres representing 91% of the county's total land. Total value of crop sales were $56,841 and animal sales were $102,398. Hickman County is a predominately farming community with production of row crops, livestock, poultry and hog barns. Our county also includes one dairy and other smaller food producing farms.

The Grow It, Eat It, Wear It program focuses on several aspects of agriculture including row crop products, dairy farming, poultry and swine production, agricultural inputs, and farm to table. This was the third time for this program to be offered in Hickman County and it proved to be a success again. Students totaling 107 from 3^rd and 4^th grades attended and participated in a rotational style setup of seven stations for a duration of twelve minutes each. Stations included Aquaculture, Sheep, Goats, Agriculture Technology, Local Orchard and Strawberry Farm, Honeybees, Making a Meal, and Soybean Education.

Community involvement played a large role in the success of this program. Local volunteers brought equipment, animals and samples, and the local strawberry producer provided samples of fresh strawberries for the students to sample. Hickman County FFA students volunteered their time to assist with organization, setup and tear down.

Teachers rated the program as a whole at 90% (54/60). This was the first year for offering this program at a new location. We utilized the new Hickman County Farmers Market and fishing pond. The pond is stocked year round through the FINS (Fishing in Neighborhoods) program through Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. 100% of the teachers noted that they would like their students to participate in this program again next year. Other comments made by teachers are as follows: "Great Organization", “Students loved it!”, “Great day! Kids loved it!”, “Excellent program!”, “All stations were very informative.” When asked how the program fits into the classroom curriculum, teachers mentioned "Science” (5), “Social Studies” (4), “Math” (2), “Reading”, “Standard” (2), “Listening”, “Speaking”, and “I can use animals to help students visualize space needed to fence animals to calculate area and perimeter.” The principal will again be adding this into the elementary school's program calendar for the 2018-2019 school year.