Wanted: Your Ideas and Suggestions

Welcome to our new monthly e-newsletter, designed to keep you and other Farm-City Council supporters throughout the country informed about resources, ideas and information to help you spread the Farm-City message.

Whether you work alone or team up with local civic organizations, agri-businesses, youth ag groups, Farm Bureaus, schools or Extension Services, your efforts to promote the understanding of the relationship between city and rural folk is an important one. Give yourselves a well-deserved pat on the back for all the time and effort you put into this important endeavor.

As chairman of the National Farm-City Council, I’d like to know how we can be of service to you. You can help us and your fellow Farm-City Council advocates throughout the country by sharing your ideas. We want to hear from you!

Al Pell, Chairman

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Maryland’s Howard County Farm-City Celebration organized a 15-day “Farms, Friend & Family” event to celebrate the county's rural heritage and educate urban neighbors about the bounty and benefits of agriculture in the county.

Nearly a dozen people from local farms, ag businesses, Extension Services, county government and an antique machinery club combined resources to host events including farm tours, heritage days and other exciting events. A great example of community involvement!

Read more! (PDF)

An “Iron Chef” contest at a local fair promoted locally grown food for Howard County, Maryland.

This free CD, complete with songs, lyrics and lesson plans, is available from the Penna. Dept. of Agriculture at their Marketplace for the Mind Web site.

Agriculture really IS a big word, especially to primary-age kids who may think chocolate milk comes from brown cows!

The "Agriculture is a BIG Word" CD, which includes six lesson plans and 13 easy-to-learn songs about milk, farming, planting a garden and barnyard animals, is being offered free by the Penna. State Dept. of Agriculture.

You can download the songs, lyrics and lesson plans here. To request a copy of the CD, contact Agricultural Education Coordinator Dr. MeeCee Baker at 717.705.9512 or c-mebaker@state.pa.us.

WARNING: Be careful because these songs are so catchy, you may not be able to get them out of your head!