The Florida Agriculture in the Classroom organization has awarded 33 grants to schools around the state so that students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade can learn about the production of Florida fruits, vegetables and horticulture.
The grants help pay for school gardens and other classroom agriculture projects.
Franklin County was not one of the award recipients, but Wakulla County did receive some money that will allow third graders at Crawfordville Elementary to learn about plant and animal life cycles and water cycles using a schoolyard garden and writing poetry about what they experience with the garden. The program is called "Agri-Cycles: A Life Cycles Book of Poetry"
The Gainesville-based Florida Agriculture in the Classroom organization spent about $34,000 on the grant projects that are reaching an estimated 6,300 students around the state. The funding comes from the sale of the agriculture specialty license plate called the "Ag Tag."
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