Ag for Life founding members will continue to fund agriculture education and rural and farm safety programming in Alberta for three more years.
More than 50,000 Alberta children, youth and adults were reached last year with Ag for Life curriculum-based educational programs.
Funded programs include the Classroom Agriculture Program, Little Green Thumbs, Alberta Open Farm Days, City Slickers On-Farm Education, Growing Minds (Neubauer Farms), the Alberta Women’s Institute Food and Farmers Project, Rural and Farm Safety Days, the Rollover Simulator Project and the Barnyard and Boots program.
Programming is delivered through collaboration with industry, government, farmers, ranchers, community leaders and not-for-profit organizations.
The organization has raised more than $4 million over the past three years and plans to attract more partners to meet program demand.
Founding members include Agrium Inc., ATB Financial, Atco Group, Penn West, Rocky Mountain Equipment, TransCanada Corp., UFA Co-operative Ltd., while AdFarm and Glacier FarmMedia are contributing members.
For more information, visit agricultureforlife.ca.
