It's Your City: Capital City Farm Days to teach youth about agriculture in Nevada
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Tue, 04/17/2018 - 10:04am
Event Date:
April 19, 2018 - 8:30am
In this week's It's Your City, host Cortney Bloomer sits down with Sandy Wallin of the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, which is hosting Capital City Farm Days this Thursday and Friday at the Carson City Fairgrounds and Fuji Park Exhibit Hall.
This annual interactive event will feature 26 to 32 presenters teaching elementary-age youth about Nevada agriculture, where food and fiber come from, and environmental issues related to agriculture. Capital City Farm Days is 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
See the video of the interview below or go here.
Presentation topics and demonstrations will include composting, organic farming, water, noxious weeds, bees and rangeland. The Nevada Department of Agriculture will have “Moolissa” there, the life-size milking cow. Future Farmers of America and 4-H youth will also bring their livestock project animals and talk about what it takes to raise a market animal. There will be wild horses and burros, a herding demonstration, and a branding presentation.
Capital City Farm Days has been a part of Carson City Cooperative Extension outreach to the community for more than 20 years. Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Youth Development Education Program teaches leadership, citizenship and life skills to nearly 50,000 Nevada youth ages 5 to 19 each year, through activities such as practicing robotics and raising animals, with an emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education.
Attendees will include public, private and home-schooled students and their families from Carson City, Storey County, Douglas County and Dayton Valley. This is a free event and the community is invited.
“Presenters will teach about how ranching and farming in Nevada serve us, as well as the benefits and challenges of maintaining agriculture in our state,” said Wallin, with the 4-H Youth Development Program. “All of the presenters love the event, and attendees look forward to it each year.”
For more information about Capital City Farm Days, contact Wallin at 775-887-2252 or wallins@unce.unr.edu.
Go here to view a short video of a past Capital City Farm Days participant, 4-H’er Kelly and her cow Bluebell.
This episode of It's Your City is sponsored by the Greenhouse Garden Center located at 2450 South Curry Street in Carson City. See the website here, the Facebook page here or call (775) 882-8600.
It's Your City is a weekly program produced by Darla Bayer and hosted by Cortney Bloomer. The program features news, events and happenings around Carson City. If your business would like to sponsor a program, contact Darla at DarlaEdits2@gmail.com or (775) 830-7939.
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