Kids on the Farm

On August 15, 2025, the Venango Conservation District received an Environmental Education Grant from the Department of Environmental Protection for our "Venango County Youth Agriculture Education Initiative".

The Venango County Youth Agriculture Education Initiative is a two-part agriculture education program where participants will learn about nonpoint source pollution prevention through the implementation of agriculture Best Managment Practices (BMP's) and environmental stewardship. The non formal education project will address several Pennsylvania education standards in environmental literacy and sustainability, and the program priorities of climate change and water.

This program will build on sustainable agriculture and nonpoint source pollution management topics discussed in the classroom by providing an outdoor experience for 50 sixth through twelfth grade students at a local farm in Venango County and by touring and interacting with the PA Farm Bureau Mobile Ag Lab. 

“Financial and other support for the VENANGO COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURE INITIATIVE has been provided by the Department of Environmental Protection’s Environmental Education Grants Program.”