Tri Cities High School Hosts 2nd Graders During Ag Literacy Day

To mark national FFA Week, Pasco’s Chiawana High School’s Ag department hosted nearby 2^nd graders for Ag Literacy Days.  FFA students taught young kids about a life of ag, using real pigs, ducks, dogs and crops.  Chiawana high School senior Alex Hall says these Literacy Days are vital, not only for young children, but many in the community who don’t realize how ag impacts their everyday lives.

“Most people don’t understand it’s more than the cow and the plow and the sow.  They really need to know there’s more to this, every time you take your animal to the vet, that’s agriculture, every time you buy new clothes that’s a part of agriculture.”

Chiawana High School FFA teacher Caitlin Coulsey told the Washington Ag Network Agriculture Literacy Day is a great benefit for the elementary kids, and high school students.

“I think the noise that you hear is excitement for agriculture in both parties.  My students at Chiawana get ready to learn about and ready for each of the lessons that they teach here.  And the kinds that come in get to feel that excitement of agriculture, get to learn something about it and get to carry that with them, and then hopefully get to become agricultural activists as they get older.”

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