All this week, students across the state have been learning lessons from the farm.

All and for AG Education is an initiative designed to help children understand the role agriculture plays in their everyday lives.

Those behind the initiative also hope it will plant a seed that could lead to a career in AG.

For some students.

While I am praying is an example of what we want to see for all our kids.

We want to make sure that they enjoy what they're doing and we want this to spread throughout.

We started this regionally just to try and give kids a little bit of agriculture education, and so it's truly amazing to see them embed agriculture into their education experience that they're getting in the classroom right now.

So today's AG Literacy Day, we have come to the local elementary school and we're teaching me kids different types of lessons to go along with the books that we read today and just about the different types of agriculture and Richmond and in Kentucky, we read the Soil, Jackie's Garden, and we also created stations based on that work.

The kids got to do things like plant their own seeds and look at different types of food that plants provide us.

And whether we eat like the flower cart or the seeds or those stands or the roots of that.

And then they also got to create a dirt pudding dessert talking about so the soil and what this all does to grow our food.

So we're using putting in Oreo servers in the dirt.

And then we also have gummy worms.

And that represents just the worms in the soil that provide nutrients.

We're basically learning about plants like the soil and stuff is made.

Like course, you want to grow a make point.

You've got to get by, get nutrients and more.

And mostly worms help that, too.

I learned that if you add bananas and the banana wraps their soil, it helps the soil and helps the plants to grow, to participate in that.

We've had been able to read books to kids, been able to participate in petting zoo, has been able to look at some of just the innovative stuff that these teachers have really put together in all the amazing things in their classrooms to be able to give these kids a little bit of agriculture education.

I think it's super important that we have this every year and that we are implementing agriculture into our curriculum.

I mean, we all eat, we all wear clothes, we all need all of these different things.

Agriculture provides us every single day.

And a lot of times kids don't know where their food comes from.

They think it comes from the grocery store or a cane or the freezer.

They don't realize that it comes from the farm.

They don't make that connection that, Hey, like my cheeseburger is coming from these cows.

And those are the kind of connections that we want to make for these kids.

Meat cows get the meat from them and and and bring in give it to and drive it to the P&G chicken house.

Learning about my like farms, crops, animals sometimes, and flowers mostly flowers and that when we say environment learning the best descriptive descriptor of that is relevance.

How is this relevant to the student?

If you go into a math class and you talk about topics that students are familiar with, then all of a sudden the math is relevant, all of a sudden they can apply it.

That's what ag week is about.

If they're exposed to agriculture early, they'll really understand the scope and the depth that agriculture brings to our and our entire country.

And we might be able to recruit a few more people to work in the agriculture industry.