Franklin
County Farm Bureau has received one of 11 $500 mini-grants from The American
Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture. The grants are awarded through the
Foundation’s White-Reinhardt Fund for Education program to communities across
the nation.
The
grants are allocated through county and state Farm Bureaus and are used to
create new agricultural literacy projects or expand on existing agricultural
literacy efforts.
Criteria
for selecting winners included: the effectiveness of demonstrating a strong
connection between agriculture and education; how successfully the project
enhances learner engagement in today’s food, fiber, and fuel systems; and the
processes and timelines for accomplishing project goals.
Franklin
County won for its “What’s in the Garden?” project which educates pre-K-5
students on how food grows from soil to table through hands-on activities,
interactive labs and age-appropriate printed materials.
“The
mini-grant program was developed to help Farm Bureau members provide free tools
to share with educators in their communities,” said Julie Tesch, executive
director of the Foundation. “Our primary overall goal is to help teach young
rural and urban students about the importance of agriculture and the vital role
it plays in our everyday lives.”
The
White-Reinhardt Fund for Education is a project of the Foundation in
cooperation with the American Farm Bureau’s Women’s Leadership Committee. The
fund honors two former committee chairwomen, Berta White and Linda Reinhardt,
who were trailblazers in early national efforts to expand the outreach of
agricultural education and improve agricultural literacy.
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