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AG ACADEMY

SOWING SEEDS IN AGRICULTURE

The Agriculture Department at Alcorn State University provided a summer workshop for youth age 6-9 on June 4-15, 2007. “Children want to learn and have fun doing it!” states Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, Program Director. This year’s group of children experienced the many facets of Agriculture by classroom lectures, site visits, greenhouse propagation, and wood working activities.

AG ACADEMY, a summer program accommodated participants from Claiborne, Jefferson, and Adams counties with 2 weeks of fun-filled, educational, soil-adventurous learning. They visited informative facilities such as the GRAND GULF MILITARY STATE PARK IN PORT GIBSON; JACKSON ZOO IN JACKSON; CLINTON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER IN CLINTON, and the MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY MUSEUM IN JACKSON. Area speakers were also invited to discuss and demonstrate how professionals in Agriculture obtain many careers that are interesting and invigorating. These professionals included BARBARA DEMATTIS, NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION SERVICE and RANDY HYNUM, FARM BUREAU. A special guest was Alcorn State University’s own, BERNADETTE WILSON, POLICE CHIEF.

The Department of Agriculture has dedicated itself to providing educational programs to stimulate the fundamental principles of life-long learning. We are grateful to serve a community that cares about the future of their youth. Agriculture not only feeds the world, but it also provides the vehicle needed for other sciences to prosper. We would like to thank each of our sponsors and contributors to the success of this program.
“IF WE SOW THE SEEDS, GENERATIONS WILL GROW!”

ASU Extension Program (ASUEP) Project

NATCHEZ FARMERS MARKET

613 MAIN STREET, NATCHEZ, MS

OPEN THURSDAY- SATURDAY

8:00 A.M. 2:00 P.M.

CONTACT: HELEN D. BROOKS

601-807-0376 or 601-442-4648

Featured produce: Cabbage greens, mustard greens, turnip roots, new potatoes, sweet corn, squash, collard greens, snap beans.

Always available are our jams, jellies, woodworks, paintings, books and homemade sugarcane syrup.

	Weekly Bulletin Online	From the Office of University Relations
	Volume 29 Issue 13	August 2, 2007
Inside: Campus News Spotlight on Excellence Communiversity News Calendar of Events Job Announcements WB Main Archive Alcorn Home	Communiversity News AG ACADEMY SOWING SEEDS IN AGRICULTURE The Agriculture Department at Alcorn State University provided a summer workshop for youth age 6-9 on June 4-15, 2007. “Children want to learn and have fun doing it!” states Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, Program Director. This year’s group of children experienced the many facets of Agriculture by classroom lectures, site visits, greenhouse propagation, and wood working activities. AG ACADEMY, a summer program accommodated participants from Claiborne, Jefferson, and Adams counties with 2 weeks of fun-filled, educational, soil-adventurous learning. They visited informative facilities such as the GRAND GULF MILITARY STATE PARK IN PORT GIBSON; JACKSON ZOO IN JACKSON; CLINTON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER IN CLINTON, and the MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY MUSEUM IN JACKSON. Area speakers were also invited to discuss and demonstrate how professionals in Agriculture obtain many careers that are interesting and invigorating. These professionals included BARBARA DEMATTIS, NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION SERVICE and RANDY HYNUM, FARM BUREAU. A special guest was Alcorn State University’s own, BERNADETTE WILSON, POLICE CHIEF. The Department of Agriculture has dedicated itself to providing educational programs to stimulate the fundamental principles of life-long learning. We are grateful to serve a community that cares about the future of their youth. Agriculture not only feeds the world, but it also provides the vehicle needed for other sciences to prosper. We would like to thank each of our sponsors and contributors to the success of this program. “IF WE SOW THE SEEDS, GENERATIONS WILL GROW!” ASU Extension Program (ASUEP) Project NATCHEZ FARMERS MARKET 613 MAIN STREET, NATCHEZ, MS OPEN THURSDAY- SATURDAY 8:00 A.M. 2:00 P.M. CONTACT: HELEN D. BROOKS 601-807-0376 or 601-442-4648 Featured produce: Cabbage greens, mustard greens, turnip roots, new potatoes, sweet corn, squash, collard greens, snap beans. Always available are our jams, jellies, woodworks, paintings, books and homemade sugarcane syrup.
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