aG day

Micki Zartman Scarlet and Gray Ag Day is an educational  outreach activity for over six hundred 4th and 5th grade Columbus area students.  The children learn about agriculture by attending different activities and labs.

Ag Day helps in educating the children and their teachers on how agriculture relates directly to their lives.  This years theme was Agriculture = Food X Fiber X Fuel and was held on the OSU campus May 13, 2011.

Green Acres Llamas represented ORVLA and was visited by individual classrooms in 6 different sessions.  They spent 30 minutes for each class and 120 students and teachers visited our tent.  We had 4 llamas and a display of fiber processing from skirting to spinning and finished products.

Each class was divided into two groups with one group visiting and learning about the llamas and the other group learning to finger knit and observing how the fiber is processed.  After 15 minutes they switched stations.

Emily Apgar, our granddaughter, was allowed to miss school so she could help by teaching the finger knitting and working with her llama Lady Fire.

Doug and I would like to thank Judy Smith, Joysan Edwards and Emily Apgar for their help in making this day a success.