A Lesson In Ag 101

Officials Hit The Books For Agriculture Literacy

Posted: March 22, 2013

Del. Tony Wilt reads “Kelly’s Big Day,” an agricultural-themed book for children, in Heather Harper’s second-grade class at John C. Myers Elementary School on Thursday. Wilt, a Broadway Republican, went to the school as part of Virginia’s Agriculture Literacy Week. (Photos by Nikki Fox / DN-R)
Virginia Agriculture Commissioner Matt Lohr, with his children, Carson, 7, and Caroline, 12, visit Carson’s second-grade class at John C. Myers Elementary School Thursday. The Lohrs read books to the students for Virginia’s Agriculture Literacy Week.
Carson Lohr, 7, and Caroline Lohr, 12, read to Carson’s second-grade class at John C. Myers Elementary School on Thursday. They were there with their father, Agriculture Commissioner Matt Lohr, for Virginia’s Agriculture Literacy Week.
BROADWAY — When Virginia Agriculture Commissioner Matt Lohr asked a group of second-graders at John C. Myers Elementary School how many of them live on a farm, three hands shot up.
 
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