 Participants in the 2015 MAITC Summer Teacher Tour explore Urban Organics.
The Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom Program
(MAITC) is excited to offer two unique summer tours that allow educators
to get a first-hand look into the world of agriculture. If you would
like to see, smell, hear, touch and taste the agriculture, food and
natural resources that allow for our survival, while earning CEUs and
graduate credits, register today!
Tour #1 - Minnesota Agriculture: Offering Something for Everyone July 25-26, 2016, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. $25 Site visits inlcude: Leaf Line Medical Cannabis Production Center in Cottage Grove, Ferndale Free Range Turkey Farm and Market in
Cannon Falls, a cooperative-based dairy farm, ride on a barge through Upper River Services on the Mississippi River in St.
Paul, then Stakman-Borlaug Center for Sustainable Plant Health and the
Minnesota Forever Green Initiative at the University of Minnesota St.
Paul Campus.
Tour #2 - Farm to School: From Seed to Plate August 8-9, 2016, 8
a.m. - 4 p.m. $25 Site visits include: Shakopee Mdewekanton
Sioux Community Wozupi Garden in Prior Lake, Pahl's Market Garden Center in
Apple Valley, Russ Davis Wholesale in Eagan, Pollinate MN in Minneapolis, Bare Honey in St. Paul, Farm to
School Lunch in Hopkins, and a school garden visit.
 Ms. Katie Kennedy
Health and Physical Education Teacher
Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle and High School
Why do you believe it
is important for our teachers and students to be agriculturally literate? I believe that it is important for me,
as a teacher, to teach and show my students agricultural literacy. One
of the main goals of a health program is to provide students with the knowledge
to make healthy decisions throughout their lives and no matter where their life
takes them, agriculture will surround them and be a part of most daily
decisions.
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Princess Kay of the Milky Way, Kyla Mauk, was a special guest in Ms. Kennedy's classroom.
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The third issue of the AgMag magazine series for 4th-6th grade students will be arriving in subscribers' mailboxes before the end of March. Features of this issue include: Celebrating our Natural Resources, What is Pollination? and Minnesota Agriculture: 1970-Today. Additional content, images, games, teacher guides, lesson and activity ideas, and an archive of past AgMag issues can be found at http://www.mnagmag.org/
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Congratulations to Neil Kruse
for being the
first person to respond with the correct
answer to our February trivia question. Neil knew that the scientific name for field corn is Zea Mays. The other top five
responders were Sara Britton, Nancy Roberts, Chrissie TenEyck, Maureen Hauck and Jacqueline Artymink-Moe.
March Trivia - The first person to email the correct answer for the question
below will win a t-shirt from Minnesota Farm Bureau.
How long is the typical gestation period for a ewe?
Email you answer to Sue Knott to be eligible for the prize!
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