District Women’s President Brenda Gayle Land awarded Shawn Jackson a mini grant for his fruit orchard at Lafayette Elementary School.

MAYO — A grant from Florida Farm Bureau will support a special learning experience for a group of students at Lafayette Elementary School. 

The grant has been awarded for the 2016-2017 academic year under Farm Bureau’s statewide, competitive Ag in the Classroom Program.

Shawn Jackson, a teacher at the Elementary School, earned the grant by submitting the application for his project, which was a fruit orchard.

Farm Bureau mini-grants are offered annually to certified classroom teachers who serve young people in kindergarten through 12^th grade. The grants are intended to help promote a better understanding of contemporary agriculture among students and teachers. Many successful projects supported by the program include innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to social studies, mathematics, language arts, physical science and natural resource

management.

Florida Farm Bureau has awarded mini-grants totaling nearly $10,000 statewide for the 2016-2017 academic year.

For more information about the Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom program, contact Mike Rogalsky at Michael.Rogalsky@ffbf.org.