 I'm Brad Bergerford. I'm a County Ag Educator with Siada County Extension here at Ohio State University. Our offices located in Portsmouth and two years ago we received a SARE Youth Educator grant. We were very intrigued with the program because at our county extension office we were incorporating our our youth education along with our 4-H program. We have a youth urban gardening program and we also are working very close with our Siada County Soil and Water Conservation Service that has recently adopted a youth education program. So just like with all of our programs we needed a little bit of funding to put on this program in Siada County. So we applied for the SARE Youth Educator grant and we received one of those. We appreciate the support of SARE for that project and it was for a one day conservation field day that we held in Portsmouth at one of our farm's apple orchard and on that orchard they have the wide array of the natural resources that are here in Siada County including woods and ponds and streams as well as cropland and greenhouses and and trees with the orchard setting. So we incorporated those folks the Furman Orchards as our partners with this SARE Education grant and we brought in in one day several hundred youth third and fourth grade youth came in and the buses transportation was provided by the school system but we used the educator grant the youth education grant to purchase the supplies that were needed to teach our youth of the natural resources that are available on a typical Siada County farming operation and those included apples different types of ornamental pumpkins where we actually utilize the apples and ornamental pumpkins to incorporate that into a pollination curriculum that we had also as part of this education program where we actually taught where we raise the bees and the bees are required to make the seeds and apples so that's what we used those those fruits and vegetables for we also provided some hand pencils paper so forth that the students would go out and do like a scavenger hunt as they're out in the orchard and they were out in the fields they were making notes of the natural resources that they would see on that farm and then we had a discussion throughout the day how those natural resources were all used to provide for the fruits and vegetables that were being growing on this farm so it is a really neat program we look forward to expanding that program in the future and we're looking at using the serri youth education grant as one of the funders to help us with that again we appreciate the support of the serri youth education grant because that has really helped kick off that program inside a county a program that we've been wanting to do for many many years but with the reduced funding that we have from our county commissioners over the years outside of county this definitely help us kick start that program and and look forward to expanding it in the future