WHAT IS FARM DAY
(InEDC)
PLACERVILLE, Calif. May 27, 2022 — WHAT IS FARM DAY? Farm Day is a fun, hands-on field trip where students and teachers experience the sights, sounds, smells and feels of agriculture and its role in our everyday lives, our county, and its economy. Registration is open to all third grade classes in El Dorado County. Whether listening to a goat’s heartbeat, witnessing milk being processed from a live cow, searching for the queen in a hive while wearing beekeeping gear, tasting and preserving local jam or watching huge forestry equipment load logs, Farm Day brings to life, for thousands of 3rd graders, the extensive contribution agriculture has in our lives, families, communities and economy.
Throughout the day, students and their teachers rotate to 6-8 different learning stations taught in the context of local farms, ranches, forests, and watersheds to learn about farms, natural resources, food, nutrition and animals. Learning Stations are presented by organizations, businesses, and persons who are experts in their field.
Examples of topics include:
Nutrition;
Local Produce & Food Preservation;
Composting & Soil;
Working Animals;
Agriculture Animals;
Fiber Animals;
Invasive and Beneficial Insects;
Milk and Dairy;
Healthy Forests & Resources;
Watersheds & Irrigation;
Land Stewardship;
Career Tech Education.
… and much more teaching students where their food, fiber, and shelter comes from.
For the last 20 years, El Dorado County Ag in the Classroom has hosted thousands of our local third graders from Lake Tahoe to El Dorado Hills for a day of hands-on, place-based, agricultural education. We hold two annual Farm Days to increase our reach with our county’s youth: spring at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds in Placerville and fall at Camp Richardson Historic Resort in South Lake Tahoe.