05/20/2026
🌱🐄 🫐 6th Annual Farm, Fit, & Fun Day! 🍅🚲🥛
We had a great time last week with the 2nd grade students from Pataula Charter Academy for our 6th Annual Farm, Fit, & Fun event!
The morning started at the UGA Extension office, where students rotated through three hands on learning stations:
🌱 Raised Bed Garden Station
Students transplanted tomatoes 🍅, peppers 🌶️, sweet corn 🌽, cucumbers 🥒, squash, and more into our raised beds. These were plants they started from seed back in March, so it was exciting for them to see the next step in the growing process! They also explored our blackberry plants and learned more about how they grow.
🚲🫐🍓Smoothie Bike Station
Students used pedal power to blend healthy fruit smoothies, featuring local blueberries generously donated by a local farm. It was a fun way to connect nutrition, exercise, and agriculture all in one activity!
🫘 Seed Planting & Greenhouse Station
Students planted the next crop that will go into our garden after the summer harvest, helping them understand that gardening is a continuous cycle of planting, growing, harvesting, and starting again.
After our garden activities, we headed over to Morgan City Park for a special visit from the Georgia Mobile Dairy Classroom. This 30-foot mobile classroom includes a fully operational milking parlor and a live cow used for milking and feeding demonstrations. Students learned where milk comes from, how it is produced and processed, the nutritional value of dairy products, and how dairy farmers care for their animals and natural resources.
A big thank you to Pataula Charter Academy, the Georgia Mobile Dairy Classroom, and everyone who helped make this hands on, educational, and fun day such a success!
