Hundreds of Pennsylvania farmers recently visited classrooms to read a book to young students to celebrate Ag Literacy Week, which is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation (PFAF), a charitable group supported by Pennsylvania Farm Bureau (PFB).
More than 200 Farm Bureau members visited more than 1,460 classrooms and reached approximately 36,000 students in 54 counties during the third annual celebration of Pennsylvania Ag Literacy Week, held March 18 to 22.
The foundation selected the book "Right This Very Minute" by Lisl H. Detlefsen, a table-to-farm book about food and farming. It was read to students in kindergarten through second grade.
Students participated in an interactive game that invited them to review what they learned from the book by matching meal times on a clock to the work farmers do to produce the foods in those meals.
The Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation is an educational charitable organization supported by Pennsylvania Farm Bureau whose mission is the preservation and promotion of agriculture with an emphasis on creating educational programs for children. For more information about Ag Literacy Week, readers may visit http://www.pfb.com/about-ag-literacy-week.
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