Students learn food processing skills
Ag instructor Desi Severance teaches students life skills like canning 蔬菜 as part of the Wyndmere (N.D.高中农业项目.
作者:马修·王尔德
Producing and processing food at home, 比如蔬菜罐头, 在美国农村是一项日渐式微的技能. Families in the Wyndmere Public School district, Wyndmere, N.D., 表达了这些关切, which inspired high school ag instructor Desi Severance to offer a new ag products and processing course.
The class sparked Severance to apply for and receive a CHS基金会 teacher grant to outfit a mobile produce processing lab for the school, which will be shared with eight other school districts. The Wyndmere Public School district 获得了15000美元的奖金, which will also be used to implement the ag processing curriculum.
“Almost all of us [area school districts] started planting orchards, school gardens and building high tunnel greenhouses within the last three years so soon there will be an excess of produce that some programs do not have the ability to deal with,” Severance wrote in her grant application. “一个移动处理实验室, along with supplements and a shared curriculum for an ag products and processing course, would help programs expose their students to the world of food preservation.
“Anytime we can get our students to get their hands dirty and delve into the process of anything hands-on, we are igniting the spark of interest in them,她接着说. “Learning different methods of freezing, canning and trying recipes for different products is an experience not many receive at home anymore.”
农业教育的新领导者
Severance was one of 15 teachers to receive CHS基金会 grants during the 2022 CHS Annual Meeting. The grants provide students with ag education and skills to help feed a growing world. The foundation celebrated its 75th anniversary by awarding $75,000 in grants to teachers to bolster ag education programs at their respective schools.
三个最高奖金为20美元,000, $15,000元及10元,000 were given to support experiential agricultural education and projects that align with the foundation’s purpose to develop new ag leaders. Another 12 honorable mention finalists received $2,500 each.
“CHS基金会 investments in the future of agriculture are broad — just like the industry we support,梅根·沃勒说, CHS基金会主席. “We need to help develop a robust pipeline of individuals across multiple disciplines in agriculture from 澳门皇冠赌场平台 and precision ag to finance and information technology.”
了解更多 about how the CHS基金会 is helping develop future ag leaders.
探索食品科学
Severance says she hopes the experience will encourage students to process and consume homegrown food and consider careers in food science and food production. The new semester-long ag processing course focuses on fruits, 蔬菜, 蜂蜜, 乳制品, 谷物, 纤维制品等. The mobile processing lab will put learned skills to use.
The grant will help buy a 7-by-16-foot trailer, 冷冻干燥机入门套件, 苹果研磨机和榨汁机, 灌装设备, 刀具及其他设备. More than 150 students are expected to use the lab.
“This mobile processing lab will allow us to take [what’s produced from] our gardens and orchards and allow us to go to the next level. [Students will] really experience the food science side that sometimes gets forgotten,塞弗伦斯说.
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