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An education in agriculture
Chamber committee hosts farm-themed event for youngsters
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Cody Deal, 11, tries to entice Quarter Horse "Prissy" with a strand of grass during Friday's Farm Day at the Honey-Bowen Building/Memorial Park. The event was staged by the Statesboro-Bulloch Chamber of Commerce to teach children about agriculture.
Horses, pigs and goats are common place along the country roads winding through Bulloch County; but catching a glimpse of the farm animals frolicking in a park in Downtown Statesboro is anything but ordinary. However odd, the scene is exactly what visitors to Statesboro’s Honey Bowen Building/Memorial Park witnessed Friday, when The Chamber of Commerce Agribusiness Committee hosted a first ever “Farm Day.”A joint effort between the Agribusiness Committee and Statesboro-Bulloch County Parks and Recreation Department, the inaugural event welcomed approximately 100 Pre-K through 5th grade students – participating in the Parks Department’s annual Summer Day Camp – to learn about agriculture in the county they call home. “We are trying to introduce agriculture into the kids’ lives,” said Katie Page, of Farmers and Merchants Bank, who worked to establish and manage the event.
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