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The OSU Klamath Basin Research Extension Center will be hosting the “Grow It, Cook It, Like It Club.” The club is free to join for 2nd through 6th graders and will include interactive virtual meetings, in-person field trips to local farms, restaurants, markets and will include take-home activities.
Read More“Thank you for the delicious beef,” the first-grader told cattle rancher Bruce Topham as she finished lunch on Wednesday. “You’re welcome,” Topham told her, smiling and returning her quick hug.
Read MoreThe Keno Elementary School student and his classmates were among more than 4,000 students treated to locally grown, organic potatoes this month during “Feed A Farmer” events in Klamath County School District cafeterias. The event, designed to teach youth about their food and who grows it for them, invited area growers into the schools to “talk potatoes” with students during lunch.
Read MoreGadge Riffle carefully put the seedling in the hole and covered it with dirt before packing the ground around the new tree with his feet.
“I planted a tree!” he told his sixth-grade teacher, Jason Dornhecker, as the class walked along a path in the woods, adding, “Well, I know they’ll unplant it and plant it again so they can show the others how to do it.”
Read MoreAt Shasta Elementary School, the countdown was done over the intercom. Students throughout the school were ready to simultaneously bite into their Oregon-grown apples Tuesday as part of the first-ever Crunch at Once event.
“Three, two, one … crunch!”
Read MoreIn celebration of National Farm-to-School month, students at Sage Community School, Bonanza, Chiloquin, Malin, Merrill, Shasta, Stearns, Henley, Pelican and Conger elementary schools will “Crunch at Once” at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 30 by simultaneously biting into an Oregon-grown apple.
Read MoreMazama High School FBLA students pilot group of Leadership Klamath Youth program
“I’ve got a question for you guys,” rancher Jason Chapman said as 12 Mazama High School students looked around his Poe Valley ranch.
“What percentage of the U.S. population is involved in agriculture?”
The students, who had spent the morning learning about agriculture in the Klamath Basin, responded thoughtfully. “Eighteen?” “Twelve?” But they weren’t even close.
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