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Festival seeks to educate kids
about where food comes from
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and even provides a bussing subsidy.
"We're trying to make it as easy to attend
as possible," he says.
Deb Campbell, who is in charge of fundrais-
ing for the festival, says the financial sup-
porters continue to grow with donations any-
where from $25 to $1,000.
"It's a great event. I've been involved since
the beginning but we don't have the volun-
teers we did and we're up against ski trips,
plays and multiple snow days when compet-
ing for kids," she says.
While the festival provides a package of
resources that fit into school curriculum,
Campbell says there are many other ways
agriculture can be used in the classroom.
"There are still so many agriculture -illiter-
ate folks out there who are so far removed
from where their food comes from. The rela-
tionship with the basics in life just isn't
there," she says.
"Hopefully, the Grade 4s who come through
here will be able to educate their families a
little," says Campbell.
Students spend the day working through a
number of displays - some of them hands-on -
involving commodity groups such as red
meat, dairy, grain, farm safety, poultry and
water and wildlife.
While students are still able to handle baby
chicks and feed a dairy calf, bio -security mea-
sures have put pig displays - from sows feed-
ing piglets to older piglets - behind glass.
"We have to follow bio -security measures if
we want a -safe food supply for Canadians so
you can't handle as many animals as you
used to. But, kids can still see how animals
are raised on a farm and get some idea of
what farmers do," says Campbell.
Susan Hundertmark
photos
Above, Sam Steep and Grade 4 teacher
Karen Ingram, of Seaforth Public School
reaches out to pet a brown Swiss dairy
cow while at right, Robyn Reeves of
Seaforth Public School, touches the
glass as she looks at a sleeping piglet
during the Agriculture and Water Festival
at the Seaforth arena and Agriplex last
week.