A group of kids in Fayette County recently spent the day getting their hands dirty and learning how to keep their bodies healthy.

They were taking part in farm R x futures, a program that introduces young people to farming by showing them how to grow nutritious food.

The goal began planting the seeds for a healthier lifestyle.

I need them to get dirt and soil on and we're going to get dirt on their hands.

One of my favorite events is to be able to showcase our farm.

Our program with children, and this is an opportunity for them to get their hands dirty.

Learn a little bit about how to grow, produce some herbs.

We're going to have five different herbs.

We're going to have them plant.

Learning to plant is important because you never know what you might need to know how to do that, or it will be fun to just teach your other friends how to plant.

So we'll be opening up kids.

It's five, plants inside of the kids of, different herbs ers that can actually help make teas or you can incorporate into your cooking, but also have medicinal purposes.

So they can do the research and it's within the little booklet, but we're just willing to show the kids how to start.

And that's the first step, is just planting even the smallest little windowsill.

And that sparks that is the catalyst to maybe I do want land, or maybe I'll try to do it outside in a raised garden and just having that potential, just to have to know that you can start even just from this, to start creating food for yourself.

What's exciting is when I get to take home like either the plant itself, what I made, or the knowledge that I can go home and do it myself.

You can grow your own natural resources so like sometimes things go through processes to get to stores and you might not want to consume those things.

So growing it yourself is a good, healthy way to keep your food pure.

One of the things is we we know food is medicine.

It's a very powerful, aspect to our livelihood.

Every day.

But a lot of people don't take it as serious as we need to.

So we'll eat out before we'll go vibe some vegetables.

Right now we have an opportunity to grow vegetables at home, right?

And we can grow the herbs in the in the different vegetables that we need.

That kind going help us in our health, whether it's beets, whether it's carrots, whether it's, basil, tomatoes.

All those things can help us in our, daily living and, and help us live a healthier lifestyle.

That's one of the things is project Ricochet is all about empowering our community, and especially those who are suffering from different ailments.

Today, we're showing the kids how it starts.

Versus the end product of giving you the food.

And then we discuss the, you know, municipalities love it for your body.

But here I'm showing the youth how to start where I start, where Doctor Quinton Marks starts on his box garden.

I start on my farm.

We're seeding and stuff like that.

How simple it is just to start small and then move and scale up.

We're in Kentucky.

This is, a vital area.

We have great soil here in Kentucky with the iron rich soil, nutrients, soil.

So let's farm.

Let's learn how you don't need a big space to be, urban farmer.

I do it myself.

And if I can do it, certainly you can do it.

So what?

I'll talk.

The Farm Futures program is one of several free programs being offered across central Kentucky this summer through Project Ricochet.