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Ag Awareness Days

2 week old lamb eyes boy with hay in hand

Since its establishment in 2009, Ag Awareness Day events at the Southern Piedmont AREC have grown into highly anticipated annual educational opportunities for third and fifth graders. This award-winning program now draws students from Nottoway, Lunenburg, Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Dinwiddie, Amelia, and Prince Edward counties.

For third graders, there are 15 diverse learning stations where they can participate in hands-on activities such as paper making, vermicomposting, using simple machines, and milking dairy cows.

Fifth graders engage in learning about the math and science behind baking bread, along with taking part in various hands-on activity stations covering topics such as animal cells, DNA, oobleck, and the apple/earth.

Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center hosts 16th year of award-winning Ag Awareness Day program

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