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FARMINGTON – Nearly 1,000 area elementary school students saw first hand the important role agriculture plays in their daily lives at the 19th annual Agriculture Environmental Education Day held at the Farmington Fair.
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The event is sponsored by the Franklin County Soil & Water Conservation District and is held on the first Monday of Farmington Fair week.
The students in grades kindergarten through fourth-grade helped make butter after first learning how to milk one of Henry and Teresa Hardy’s heifers. Then it was on to the cider press where they pitched in apples and turned the crank to first grind then squish the apple mash into cider with help from Tom Piekart’s press and his crew of helpers that included Ben Dudley of Phillips.
A long line of students and their chaperones waited to see how bees make honey and a chance to taste the sweet product while another popular sweet spot was at the Maine Maple Producers Association’s demonstrations and taste of maple syrup and maple candy.
With the exhibition hall, museums and barns all open and some 30 different educational learning stations set up with demonstrations, instructions or special presentations, students, teachers and parent volunteers were kept busy throughout the day today.
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