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P&E Committee planning Farm-to-School program

PROGRAM MATERIAL — Connie Crawford, a member of the Jefferson County Farm Bureau Promotion and Education Committee, displays some of the material for the Farm to School program being planned for later in the year for school children in the county. The pig program for fourth-graders will involve a pig from the Finney Hog Farm in Mount Pleasant. -- Contributed

WINTERSVILLE — Erika Lyon, Ohio State Extension/Jefferson and Harrison County agent, was a guest at the Jefferson County Farm Bureau Promotion and Education meeting where the “Farm to School” program was discussed.

The program will be presented in some county schools in the spring with classes having material geared to their age, according to Jeanne Roberts, who conducted the meeting.

Courses and demonstrations will be on popcorn, making butter, ice cream, cheese, cotton, pigs, growing carrots, corn and peas, soy beans, honey, farm products needed for pizza and the life of earthworms.

The next P&E meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 13 at 10 a.m. in the former Bantam Ridge Elementary School social room. Attendees will prepare gift bags for the “Straight from the Heart” Woman’s Wellness event to be held Oct. 21 at the Union Hill Methodist Church in Sugarcreek.

It will involve programs on super foods, balancing life with exercise, the nature of butterflies, chocolate, basic yoga, backyard gardening, Amazing Grace pillowcase, skin tone complementing and deco snowman. The cost is $35 for non-Farm Bureau member and $25 for members. For information, call the Farm Bureau office at (740) 266-6603.

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