'Day at the Farm' Hosted by EKU Meadowbrook Farm

EKU Meadowbrook Farms hosted its annual “Day at the Farm” on April 10, 2018, for Wolfe County elementary schools third and fourth graders.

Agriculture and horticulture students organized and participated in the day at the farm event. Each student was assigned to a different game or activity that taught the children different things about farm equipment, animals, plants, products, and business.

Agriculture Equipment and Petting Zoo: 

• Evan Bentle (Brooksville), Agribusiness Management
• Brett Congleton (Richmond) Agribusiness Management
• Eric Kilburn (Beattyville) Pre-Veterinary Medicine
• Michael Sanguigni (Paris) Agribusiness Management
• Bryanna Warner (Newark, OH) Agribusiness Management

Ice Cream:

• Josely Labarrere (Lexington) Agronomy, Soils, and Natural Resources
• Kelsey Lainhart (Cynthiana) Agronomy, Soils, and Natural Resources
• Maria Lanham (Shelbyville) Pre-Veterinary Medicine
• Danielle Milbern (Lexington) Agribusiness Management

Farm Game:

• First Base- Whitney Ferrell with a hula hoop activity to teach the students about water and nutrient movement through spores
• Second Base- Professor Carla Hagan with a matching game where they matched plants to the products they make up
• Third Base- Joel Hardesty and Grant Hagerman taught students a lesson in sports turf through a relay race with a variety of ball sports.
• Home Plate- Austin Martin and Sammantha Tarazon taught the children how to make grass heads

Tours:

• Dairy- Patrick Kraner (Paris) Agribusiness Management
• Beef- Shawn Dore (Lexington) Agribusiness Management
• Sheep- Cody Caudill (Richmond) Agribusiness Management
• Swine- Beckham Sharpe (Danville) Horticulture

Group Leaders:

• Logan Holland (Whitesburg) Agribusiness Management
• Larken Jones (Richmond) Pre-Veterinary Medicine
• Nikki Lanham (Perryville) Agribusiness Management
• Ross Ramsey (Richmond) Agribusiness Management  

Throughout the day, children could pet calves and lambs and see the sheep and cattle. EKU students taught the visitors about the many different animals throughout the farm. They also learned about different types of plants and even got to make small grass heads that would grow “hair”. 

Farm tours took students on a ride to the farrowing barn where the pigs are housed, to the dairy operations, the sheep barn, and where the calves are housed.

A highlight of the day is always making their own ice cream using milk from the farm. The students had a wonderful time and it is always fun being able to share with students everything that goes into a farm. 

For more information on EKU’s agriculture programs, visit http://agriculture.eku.edu/

For more information on Meadowbrook Farm, visit http://farms.eku.edu/.

Published on April 10, 2018