From EASTWOOD FFA
Food For America is a program put on annually by the Eastwood FFA chapter to teach local fourth-grade students about agriculture.
The program is hosted at the Russell and Nissen Farms, which are both in the Eastwood School District. Each farm has different stations where the FFA members teach the fourth graders about their specific topic. The students visit both farms so that they can learn about every topic the FFA members have prepared for them.
At the Nissen farm, the fourth graders learned about horses, sheep, goats, swine, cattle, dogs, agronomy, and soils and land use. Agronomy is the part of agriculture that deals with crop production and soil management. The fourth graders were able to learn by both hands-on activities and listening to lessons.
At the Russell farm, the kids learned about poultry and rabbits, making homemade ice cream, recycling and litter prevention, wildlife, farm equipment, antique tractors, bees and animal byproducts, and dairy. The fourth graders got to make ice cream and listen to lessons.
The members who taught the lessons also brought some animals and other items related to their topic.
Not only did the members teach the fourth graders, but they learned how to be better group leaders. All the FFA members were assigned to either teach a lesson or to lead the students around the farms and help them pay attention to the teachers in order to get the most out of their Food For America experience.
