Read ME Agriculture: March 12 - 16, 2012 
Read "ME" Agriculture has reached over 30,000 Maine students since 2008. Conservation Districts assist schools in recruiting volunteers to read books about agriculture to pre-kindergarten through 4th grade classrooms across the state. They tell students about their farms, programs, or connections to agriculture, and give teachers the book as well as lessons and information to use, all supplied by Maine Agriculture In The Classroom.
Funding for this project is a direct result of the Maine agricultural specialty license plate & grants from USDA.
To find out how your classroom can participate, how we can assist you in recruiting volunteer readers, or to become a volunteer reader, call Rebecca Jacobs at 273-2005 x101 or email rebecca@knox-lincoln.org.
2012 Book: Seed, Soil, Sun - Earth's Recipe for Food
March 12 - March 16, 2012 
This year, volunteers will read a new book on agriculture, Seed, Soil, Sun: Earth's Recipe for Food, an exceptional resource by Cris Peterson and winner of the American Farm Bureau Foundation Book of the Year Award. Volunteer readers also will bring additional information on their own farm, program, or commodity to share with the students.
An extra bonus is the Educator’s Guide, with lessons and activites developed especially for elementary educators.
Each classroom will receive both books to keep. Volunteers will read the entire book or, for younger classrooms, may choose pages and pictures to talk about.
More about SEED SOIL SUN by Cris Peterson
- In this clearly written and beautifully photographed book, author Cris Peterson details the miraculous process by which air and water combine with seed, soil, and sun to create nearly all the food we eat.
- Reading level: Grades 1st – 3rd.
- Winner of the AFBFA’s “Book of the Year” Award. 32 pages, Full-color photographs,
- Includes the Educators Guide:
Subject-matter focused, agriculturally themed, National Learning Standards aligned lessons that teach reading, math, science, social science, health, and nutrition. - Activities include:
SEED CUP, for easy germination
SOIL JAR, showing soil particle sizes
PARTS OF THE PLANT, with full color pictures