Garden County Schools Science & Agriculture

Our annual fruit sales will be kicked off on Monday, October 23rd, with sales ending on November 16, 2023. We will have a variety of fruits, meats and cheeses, and popcorn. All the goodies you may need for a fall evening or a little something extra around Thanksgiving. Please reach out to one of our FFA members or order online https://forms.gle/YtYj4t3jjK5wfYXZ7. In other exciting news, Todd Filipi, the Resource Conservation Coordinator of North Platte Natural Resource District, received grant money to donate trees to all the counties, and Garden County was fortunate enough to be one of the counties where trees would be placed. Sarah Paisley, Assoc Extension Educator, asked the Garden County FFA Officers to help plant the trees at the Garden County fairgrounds in Lewellen. The Garden County Ag Society asked that the trees be planted in the tree row West of the 4-H cattle barn. A Hackberry tree, Honey Locust tree, Kentucky Coffeetree, and a Northern Catalpa tree were all successfully pl

       The 6th annual Ag safety day was held on October 18. The Garden County 3rd graders were the second group to attend this event on the Farm. This event is hosted by the Garden County Extension Office and the Garden County FFA Chapter. The FFA members were in charge of cooking the meal and presenting and creating sessions for the 3rd graders to go through.       Starting the day off, Extension Educator, Sarah Paisley, gave a presentation on sun safety, afterward the 3rd graders would go on to rotate through the following Ag topics: Animal Safety, with the help of a chicken, horse, dog, and feedlot calves; environmental safety, learning about wildlife and how to be prepared in the outdoors; and personal protective equipment where youth talked about chemical safety while bleaching their own Ag Safety Day t-shirt. To help them learn more about where the food we eat comes from, the lunch was full of Garden County ag products.      After lunch, the group headed off on a very cold farm t

Seventeen members of the Garden County FFA Chapter competed in the Nebraska FFA District 12 Livestock Evaluation Career Development Event at the Box Butte Fairground in Hemingford, Nebraska. The junior team placed fifth place, qualifying for the Nebraska FFA State Event in April 2024 while receiving a white ribbon. Javis Underwood, Jase Roberson, Kole Fornander, Cable Larsen, Chris Clark, Kelbi Cooper, Natalie Coss, Jana Spencer, and Carolina Schwab competed in the junior division.  Kelbi earned a blue ribbon, Javis a red ribbon, and Kole earned a white ribbon. Wyland Lobner, Kyan Kramer, Carver Corfield, Breanna Yates, Oakley Larsen, Wilsie Lobner, Kyle Rote, and Branson Anderson competed in the senior division. Carver earned a blue ribbon and Wilsie earned a white ribbon.