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FRANKFORT, Ky. — The second season of “Agriculture Adventures: Kentucky” will roll out in August after a successful inaugural tour.
“Agriculture Adventures: Kentucky” is an entertaining and educational program designed to teach Kentucky schoolchildren about the importance of agriculture. It is a production of COSI, a science museum in Columbus, Ohio.
“One of the most important things the Kentucky Department of Agriculture does is educate Kentucky children about agriculture’s impact on their everyday lives,” Commissioner Richie Farmer said. “’Agriculture Adventures: Kentucky’ enables our young people to have fun and learn at the same time. It’s an outstanding program.”
The new season of “Agriculture Adventures: Kentucky” will start Aug. 22 at Potter Gray Elementary School in Bowling Green.
COSI has taken 66 reservations for the coming school year so far. Last year, the program was presented to 41,088 students in 104 performances throughout the Commonwealth.
Chef Parmesan and Derby the horse host the entertaining “Lunch Room Live” program in which they take children through the process of growing the ingredients to make pizza. Following the program, students get to milk a fiberglass cow, grind wheat into flour, test soil samples and participate in many other hands-on experiments and activities.
The founding sponsors of “Agriculture Adventures: Kentucky” are Kentucky Agriculture and Environment in the Classroom, the Kentucky Cattlemen’s Association, the Kentucky Pork Producers Association, the West Kentucky Growers Cooperative and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. Contributing sponsors also include the Kentucky Corn Growers Association, the Kentucky Soybean Association and the Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association.
For more information on “Agriculture Adventures: Kentucky,” contact Rayetta Boone, assistant director of the Division of Agriculture Education, Farm Safety and Farmland Preservation, by phone at (502) 564-4696 or by e-mail at rayetta.boone@ky.gov, or go to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture Web site at www.kyagr.com and go to Education Resources in the pull-down menu.
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