May 7th, 8th & 9th, 2024
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Our goal is to educate the growing urban population on the role and benefits of agriculture, through the experiences of students and educators.
In 2019 we served nearly 1,200 fourth grade students. The “Farm Fair” is an all-day continuing education, program for fourth grade elementary school students. Each day for three (3) days, 300+ students, with their teachers visit a local farm to learn about agriculture production, economics, soil science, animal science, environmental management and exposure to careers in agriculture related fields.
Subject-matter professionals staff fifteen-minute stations and the students rotate through each during the day. Curriculum stations include:
- Water cycle
- Bees/pollination
- Weeds identification
- Irrigation/soil conservation
- Forestry
- Beef cattle
- Dairy and cow milking
- Dairy goats/cheese
- Sheep (ewe to you)
- Gallatin Valley crops
- Safety
- Making “tin can” ice cream
- Pigs
- Potatoes
- 4-H
- Story of wheat (field to table)
- Draft horses
Demonstrations include wagon rides into an adjoining field explaining soil conservation, crop rotations, and a working irrigation system. A free lunch is provided each day to students, teachers, chaperones, and volunteers. Curriculum is reviewed annually to offer the most pertinent and up-to-date information possible.
Pre-event and post-event classroom material is available to each classroom.
The mission of the Gallatin Valley Agriculture Committee’s “Farm Fair” is to provide a rural ranch atmosphere where students and teachers have the opportunity to see and touch where our basic food supply originates, how it is prepared for processing for human consumption and to demonstrate agriculture’s commitment to protecting the natural resources on which it depends.
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