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4 Easy Button Activities & Displays for Fairs
We have a plethora of resources to make incorporating ag literacy into your fair display easy!
Feeding Minds Press will Focus on Accurate Agriculture Books for Children
Bringing children accurate knowledge about how their food is grown is the goal of Feeding Minds Press, a new children’s book publishing venture from the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture.
Spring 2018 White-Reinhardt Mini-Grants Awarded
Seven county Farm Bureaus have received $1,000 mini-grants for ag literacy programs through the White-Reinhardt Fund.
Careers in Agriculture Resources
Help students understand all of their ag career options with these resources!
Growing Your Community
Students are more engaged when they are tasked to help address REAL world issues. The newest Purple Plow STEM challenge asks students to tackle food insecurity in their communities.
New My American Farm Fair Displays and Activities
Update your fair or event with these colorful and engaging My American Farm banners!
Ag Innovations
"Practical application of knowledge - I don’t know about you but that sounds like agriculture to me." This year the Foundation is focusing on celebrating Ag Innovations! Read this inspiring speech made by Beverly Flores, North American Media Relations and Communications Manager for John Deere, made at the 2018 Flapjack breakfast.
Celebrate Peanut Butter Lovers Month, Get to Know America’s Peanut (Butter) Farmers
November is Peanut Butter Lovers Month! That tasty jar of peanut butter you keep in your pantry – do you know who helped make it?
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Celebrating the Apple – All Year Round
October is National Apple Month! Learn about how farmers ensure apples make it from their farms to our homes all year round.
2017 Food & Farm Facts Activity Cards
The new Food and Farm Facts Activity Cards are standards-aligned and now available!
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A Beekeeper’s Story: An Interview With Cameron Robertson
To wrap up our 3 part National Honey Month series, we interviewed California beekeeper Cameron Robertson to learn about beekeeping as a career.
The Art & Science of Beekeeping
In the spirit of National Honey Month, we bring you a history of beekeeping as an ancient art and an overview of apiology as an important science for modern life.
September is National Honey Month!
In the spirit of celebration, we bring you five crazy honey related facts you won’t BEE-LIEVE!
What is Sustainable Agriculture?
Our new lesson plans for grades 9-12 help students explore what "sustainable agriculture" looks like!
How can we solve the problem of erosion?
New Purple Plow Challenge: Save the Soil! Runs Aug 15-Nov 1. The challenge will ask students to research, design, construct, test and report on a solution to local top soil erosion concerns.
Partnering with National Ag in the Classroom
Leaders of the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture and the National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization announce a newly established partnership to strengthen collaboration between the two groups.
Where does seedless watermelon come from?
What do science and watermelon have in common? Turns out a lot! Learn how science helps us make delicious seedless watermelon!
