Future farmers to gift free pumpkins to kids in Madera

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Over a 1000 kids successful Madera volition actively immerse themselves successful California Ag.

According to Madera Unified School District (MUSD), Madera Future Farmers of America (FFA) will prosecute with TK and kindergarten students, showing them the ropes of California Agriculture.

MUSD says an estimated 1,600 students volition be Ag Literacy Days which volition hap implicit the people of 3 days, Oct. 9 to Oct. 11. The acquisition lawsuit is intended to cultivate an appreciation for agriculture.

Officials accidental Madera FFA members volition enactment with the kids connected hands-on activities and interactive lessons, specified arsenic a petting zoo, planting pumpkin seeds, and creating a representation publication showing an orange's farm-to-table journey.

And aft the three-day event, MUSD says each the kids volition bring location a escaped pumpkin grown by the Madera FFA team.