Monroe County Fifth Grade Field Day
Monroe County Farm Bureau volunteers Glenda Thomas and Bess Lusk presented “My Pizza Comes from a Farm” to over 175…
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Monroe County Fifth Grade Field Day
Monroe County Farm Bureau volunteers Glenda Thomas and Bess Lusk presented “My Pizza Comes from a Farm” to over 175 fifth graders in Monroe County at the annual day field event. The students were able to see all the ingredients that are needed to make a pizza, such as wheat, milk, peppers, cheese, sauce, and ingredients to make the dough. At the end of the demonstration, each student was given a piece of pizza to enjoy along with a goodie bag with various items.
Other educational topics during the field day included electricity, honey bees, pollination, recycling, deer and turkey calls, and furs and pelts.
Presenters for the event included Noble SWCD, Monroe County OSU Extension office, the Monroe County wildlife officer, Monroe County Herb Group, Monroe County Farm Bureau, South East Ohio Joint Solid Waste Management District, South Central Power, and ODNR-Division of Forestry.
Other county Farm Bureau volunteers who helped were Steve Burkhart, Mark Landefeld, John Lusk, and Stacy Sharp.
I'm eternally grateful for the support Ohio Farm Bureau scholarships provided in helping me turn my dreams into reality.
I appreciate the benefit of having a strong voice in my corner. The extras that are included in membership are wonderful, but I'm a member because of the positive impact to my local and state agricultural communities.
I see the value and need to be engaged in the community I live in, to be a part of the decision-making process and to volunteer with organizations that help make our community better.
Farm Bureau involvement has taught me how to grow my professional and leadership experience outside of the workforce and how to do that in a community-centric way.
With not growing up on a farm, I’d say I was a late bloomer to agriculture. I feel so fortunate that I found the agriculture industry. There are so many opportunities for growth.
Labor has always been an issue, mainly because we are a seasonal operation. So that's a challenge finding somebody who only wants to work three months out of a year, sometimes up to six months.
Knowing that horticulture is under the agriculture umbrella and having Farm Bureau supporting horticulture like it does the rest of ag is very important.
If it wasn't for Farm Bureau, I personally, along with many others, would not have had the opportunity to meet with our representatives face to face in Washington.
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