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Grown Here at Home: Botetourt County 4-H Dairy Club teaches kids responsibility on the farm (opens the original)
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BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Botetourt County 4-H Dairy Club is relatively new. Courtney Henderson started the group in 2024 to give back to her community. Henderson said most of the kids in the club don’t come from farming backgrounds. “The majority of these kids don’t come from farming backgrounds,” Henderson said. “To be able to show what I have here at home and where their food is coming from, and then actually learn responsibility, learn work ethic, and learn determination overall.” T
Grown Here at Home: Sunflower Festival brings final weekend, big economic impact to Botetourt County (opens the original)
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BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Beaver Dam Farm Sunflower Festival has one more weekend before it wraps up for the year. The festival has run for 11 years and adds something new each season. This year’s theme features two Highland cows named Sunny and Rolo. “Our t-shirts were designed around them. We have bags that were designed around them. Socks, which are super fun,” said Candace Monaghan, founder of the festival. The sunflower festival now brings in 18,000 to 20,000 visitors over the cour
Grown Here at Home: Farm Fest returns to Alleghany County for third year (opens the original)
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COVINGTON, Va. (WDBJ) - Farm Fest is marking its third year in Alleghany County, with organizers aiming to make the event bigger each time. The event will include a farm parade, livestock, tractors and games. Teresa Reed, the agriculture teacher at Alleghany High School, came up with the idea for the event. “It brings those in to see what we’re doing and gives more of an awareness to those who don’t know exactly how heavy into agriculture we are,” Reed said. “It showcases our animals that we hav
Grown Here at Home: Beaver Dam Farm Sunflower Festival to have 406 flags honoring 9/11 first responders on display (opens the original)
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BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Beaver Dam Farm Sunflower Festival will feature a display of more than 400 American flags honoring first responders killed on Sept. 11, 2001. The display, called the 9/11 Field of Heroes, includes tags surrounding the flags showing their faces and information about them. Bill Price is the founder and president of the nonprofit Sirens and Salutes. Price said his godfather, a New York City firefighter, was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and lost 37 friends, in
Grown Here at Home: Franklin County teacher blends agriculture, math (opens the original)
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ROCKY MOUNT, Va. (WDBJ) - Jennifer Hatch, a seventh grade math teacher at Benjamin Franklin Middle School, uses agriculture projects to teach math concepts in her classroom. Hatch’s classroom includes a hydroponics garden, a weather station and a worm farm. Her students also grow food in raised beds and have participated in a national competition that challenges students to grow food using lunar soil. Hatch said the approach started in 2022, when she had a class of students who did not want to b
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