agriculture education for students
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I enjoyed writing this article because I believe the message behind it, to educate children about where their food comes from, is very important. Kids in cities aren't always given this kind of educations but for more than 20 years, organizers have been taking on the responsibility of educating kids about local agriculture.TRANSCRIPT
Grade three studentsfrom the Orangeville areawere given the opportuni-ty this week to learn aboutand get up close and per-sonal with local agricul-ture and what it means forthem.
The OrangevilleAgricultural Society hasbeen hosting yearly educa-tion days for grade 3 stu-dents for 20 years, startingat the grandstand at the oldfairgrounds before movingto the curling club andfinally the new fair-grounds 13 year ago.
John Rayburn, fairboard member and chair ofFood Education, says chil-dren don’t have any con-tact with agriculture andby having these educationsessions they are givingkids the chance to learnabout where Orangevilleas a community camefrom.
On Tuesday andWednesday, a total of ninepublic school groups, fourprivate schools and agroup of home-schooledchildren made their waythrough the eight stationsthat have been set upinside the AgriculturalSociety building.
When the studentsarrived Sarah Condon,Senior Ambassador of theOrangeville Fall Fair wel-comed them.
“I just came to educatethe kids on what theywould be doing today aswell as go over how theycan get involved in the fairas well, because I thinkthat there is not as much
promotion as we’d like onhow people can getinvolved in the fair, thecompetitions we have andthe different ways thatthey can enter products,”she said.
The students were thendivided into eight groupsbefore beginning the edu-cation circuit. Each stationhad 9-10 minutes to talk tothe kids about their subjectbefore they studentsmoved onto the next sta-tion.
Bert Nieuwenhuis, alocal lamb and wool pro-ducer, explained the use ofsheep and their wool to thekids.
There was a horse sta-tion where ShelleyLivingston explained howshe takes care of her hors-es and pony’s as well asthe different riding stylesand the different in theirhooves from other farmanimals.
Laverne Trimble andFred Murphy brought abeef cow as a calf to usefor their talk. Theyinformed the kids ongrooming, nutrition andthe digestive systems ofthese huge animals, focus-ing on how their stomachsbreak down the foods thecow eats.
Jan Scheurwater andJoe Oosterhof, local dairyfarmers, and dairy educa-tor Lois Mezt ran the dairycow station. Nutrition forthe increased productionof milk, upgrades fromhand milking to machinemilking and how muchmilk a healthy dairy cowcan produce a day weretopics that were explained.
Gerry Terpstra, an
Alpaca farmer/hobbyist,explained all the importantdifferences between sheepwool and alpaca hair to thestudents highlightingmajor differences like thefrequency of wool har-vesting, alpaca’s are onlyshaved once a year, andthe absence of oils in thehair.
He also explained thateven though the alpacalooks like llamas, they aretwo very different ani-mals.
Jack Langen and DaveApple from the HighCountry Antique PowerClub brought in three cen-tury pieces to show thekids how corn wasshucked and ground downfor feed and rope wasmade by twining smallerstrings using a hand pow-ered machine into a thick-er and stronger rope.
Mark and PeggieVantrigt, local beekeepers,brought in a hive to use attheir education station.They explained the bees
are important and how wecan help them to survive.They explained the howbees pollinate gardens andflowers as well as largercrops, highlighting theneed for bees.
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health alsohad a representative pres-ent to show the sugar con-tent of some of the kidsfavorite snack foods anddrinks. She explained howsome sugar is all right buttoo much sugar is not goodfor us, as well as the dif-ferences between goodsugars in fruit and veg-etable, and bad sugars incandy and snacks.
“Its good education forthe kids to realize wheretheir food comes from,”said Mr. Rayburn. “One ofthe chaps sitting acrossfrom me at lunch time saidit’s too bad we couldn’tbring the people up fromBrampton andMississauga to somethinglike this because thosekids are further away from
agriculture then thesekids.”
He commented thatOrangeville was a farmingcommunity at one time.
“It helps the kids to seewhat’s going on it theircommunity, a lot of themdon’t realize that there arefarmers, beekeepers andpeople around that are partof agriculture that aregrowing their food local-ly,” said Ms. Condon. “Itreally gives them a greatersense of what Orangevilleis all about.”
All of the presentersand organizers have vol-unteered their time foreducation day. Ms.Condon said teachers inthe area have come toexpect this education dayevery year and see it as avaluable learning tool fortheir students.
She said that for someof the kids this is their firsttime being this close ortouching a farm animal.
“It’s not just the townthat they see, a lot of thekids are in subdivisions soit gives them a broadersense of the entire commu-nity because it was basedon farming,” she said. “Ithink it’s great to educatethem on whereOrangeville comes from.”
Orangeville Citizen/Free Press and Economist April 14, 2011 A5
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Photo/LINDSEY PAPPEDUCATION DAY: Jan Scheurwater, a dairy farmer from Grand Valley,allowed students to touch the adult dairy cow he brought for the gradethree education day at the Orangeville fairgrounds as they asked ques-tions.
Students learn the importance of agriculture
Orangeville Police areasking for the public’shelp on finding that a vehi-cle had received extensivedamage while in theSobeys parking lot at 500Riddell Road.
Police say the vehiclewas parked outside thestore just before 8:30 a.m.When the owner returnedto it at about 2:30 p.m. itwas discovered that some-one had punctured a holein one tire, smashed a reartail light and severelyscratched both sides of thesilver 2006 Dodge GrandCaravan, right down to themetal.
Police feel that, giventhe amount of customer
traffic at the store, it islikely that someone wit-nessed the incident ornoticed suspicious activi-ty.
Anyone having furtherinformation with regardsto this incident is encour-aged to call theOrangeville Police Serviceat 519-941-2522 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or www. sdm-crimestoppers.com.
Callers to CrimeStoppers remain anony-mous and informationleading to the arrest of theperson responsible for thecrime may qualify thecaller to receive a cashreward of up to $2000.
Vehicle damaged in Sobeys parking lot