Success StoryAg Day
Ag Day
Author: Savannah Gilbert
Planning Unit: McCracken County CES
Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home
Outcome: Initial Outcome
It is important to provide essential agricultural education to the youth of the community. The McCracken County Cooperative Extension Service was able to host an Ag Day for over 400 students from five local elementary schools. The Horticulture Assistant helped by presenting at a booth about gardening. Specifically, Savannah explained what several garden tools were and demonstrated how to use them. She also played a seed identification game where students were shown various vegetable seeds and they had to guess what the vegetable was. The students made observations about the different seed characteristics, discussed the nutritional importance of that vegetable, and got to take some home to plant on their own. Exposing youth to the basics of gardening sparked curiosity in many students who had never seen a garden, was a great way to promote kids to get outside, and brought awareness to the food they eat and where it comes from.
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