This month, Ohio Farm Bureau hosted 24 K-2nd grade educators for a professional development event, Food Roots: Where your Lunch Begins, while at the 2025 Ohio State Fair.

This free, one-day professional development event was open to any formal educator who instructs kindergarten, first grade or second grade in Ohio. The event included in-depth visits with farmers and commodity groups in each of the livestock barns, hands-on curriculum training, and a stop at Ohio Farm Bureau’s Little Farmer exhibit. All of the educators who attended Food Roots also received two standards-aligned hands-on lesson kits that include National Ag in the Classroom content and agriculturally accurate books.

“As new generations are becoming farther removed from the farm, the gap between agriculture and consumers

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