Food Farm and antique seeding demo
By Joan Janzen
On Friday, June 2, the Threshing Club conducted their annual seeding demonstration in conjunction with the 2023 Food Farm program for Grade 3 students. This year, 110 students from Kindersley and the surrounding area participated.
Janelle Swan from Simplot Grower Solutions said the company is excited to, once again, partner with many local businesses in order to make this project possible. This spring, they partnered with Pattison Agriculture, FCC, and the Kindersley Regional Office of the Ministry of Agriculture.
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“The Food Farm program is an initiative originally developed by Agriculture in the Classroom - Saskatchewan,” she explained. “There are 12 Food Farms happening province-wide this spring.” The Food Farm helps students learn about food production by actively participating in growing the ingredients for their “Burger and Fries” Farm. Grade 3 students plant everything they would need for a burger and fries meal.
Each group of students spent half a day at the museum, working through eight fun stations with hands-on activities. Not only was each station fun, but it was teaching different aspects of agriculture, including crop health, plant parts, and meat production. What an excellent tool to help kids learn about agriculture!
The following September, the students who are now in Grade 4, return to harvest their crops. This is an opportunity for kids and adults to experience the full cycle of farming and to help understand where their food comes from.
Five of the eleven acres were seeded on June 2, using antique equipment and horse power, meaning plow horses. The horses were supplied by Brent Walker, Gordon Caswell, Barry Benjamin and Lionel Story.
Lionel Story is one of the twenty members of the Threshing Club. During the week, the members were busy getting the equipment ready for the demonstration. Thanks to their diligence, the equipment is in reasonably good shape and doesn’t require a lot of work.