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Supervisor Thomas recommending the Board:
1) Find that a public benefit is derived from sponsoring “Ag in the Classroom’s Farm Day Event” at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds on May 9, 2023; and
2) Approve and authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to sign a Funding Agreement, consistent with the County’s standard form and upon the approval of County Counsel, with Ag in the Classroom authorizing payment of a $5,000.00 community funding contribution.
FUNDING: General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
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.
Farm Day is a fun, hands-on field trip where students and teachers across our county 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.
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 the topics include: Nutrition; Local Produce & Food Preservation; Composting & Soil; Working Animals; Ag Animals; Fiber Animals; Invasive & Beneficial Insects; Milk & Dairy; Healthy Forests & Resources; Watershed & Irrigation; Land Stewardship; Career Tech Education and much more teaching the students where their food, fiber and shelter comes from.
Whether listening to a goat’s heartbeat, witnessing milk being processed from a live cow, se...
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