While in Baltimore several of the National Committee had the opportunity to take the Accurate Ag Book project to Grace & St. Peter’s Episcopal Church & Day School. This year’s book is titled, Farmers’ Market, written by Carmen Parks. Farmers’ Market shows in a simple, yet accurate manner the process a vegetable/fruit producer must follow to produce the food that we as consumers see at our local farmers market.

We were greeted by several eager 3- to 5-year-olds all wanting to learn from us! The book was read. Next we asked several questions such as, Do you like vegetables? Who likes potato chips? Then you like potatoes! After reading and asking questions the kids were ready to get active. Part of the goal of Accurate Ag Books, in addition to educating about agriculture, is to promote physical exercise. So off to "acting" out the book we went, including a spilled vegetable cart and then having to pick up all our vegetables! The last and final part of our visit included a short exercise in selling and buying the vegetables and fruits we had just "picked" in our previous activity.

This is a great activity to take into your local pre-k and kindergarten programs and help spread the news of agriculture. If you would like more information on this program please contact someone on the national committee or Betty Wolanyk at AFBF and help spread the knowledge of what we in production ag are doing to create a safe and wholesome food supply!