Elementary school kids learn about nutrition at local farm tomorrow

Event will help promote public Farm Tour on Oct. 2

2004 Archived News

Please join students from Salmon Creek Elementary who will visit a picturesque Fall City farm the morning of September 30 to learn things like which vegetables help fight disease, promote healthy skin, and why buying vegetables locally helps family farms.

This event provides media compelling visuals and a fantastic chance to advance the King County Harvest Celebration Farm Tour, which is scheduled October 2. Third and fourth graders from Salmon Creek will be touring the farm, doing a nutrition scavenger hunt, and taking a wagon ride out to the farm's pumpkin patch to pick their favorite pumpkin. Please join us:

This students' farm visit will kick off King County's 6th annual Harvest Celebration Farm Tour by teaching children about the link between locally grown food and nutrition on one of the 23 farms featured on the October 2 farm tour. On hand will be Debbie Arenth of Fall City Farms, and Sylvia Kantor and Holly Freishtat of WSU King County Extension, who can talk about growing and supplying a variety of locally grown produce to King County, the importance of buying food locally, and the Harvest Celebration Farm Tour's significant role in educating consumers about our local food system. The annual Farm Tour helps support local farms and our local food system by introducing King County citizens to local farmers and their produce on their farms.

Click on http://www.metrokc.gov/wsu-ce/farmtour/ to get a full list of the 23 farms participating in the October 2 Harvest Celebration Farm Tour. The Harvest Celebration Farm Tour kick-off is presented by Washington State University King County Extension and sponsored by King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, Puget Sound Fresh, PCC Natural Markets, Full Circle Farm, From the Heart of Washington, Pioneer Organics, and the Cascade Harvest Coalition.

Directions to Fall City Farms

From Fall City, drive north on Carnation-Fall City Road (Hwy 203) towards Carnation, take the first left in about 50 yards onto Neal Road. Go .5 mile to the farm and take the gravel drive to the barns and parking.