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Cargill Commits $100,000 to Wichita's Botanica to Create "Cargill Children's Farm"
15.07.2010 10:08 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Cargill will be presenting Botanica, The Wichita Gardens, with a check for $100,000 toward creation of the «Cargill Childrens Farm,» an interactive, interpretive, multisensory area within «The Downing Childrens Garden.» The project is part of a multiphase, 27-acre expansion for Botanica. The first phase of this expansion is the Downing Childrens Garden, which is scheduled for completion in 2011. The Cargill Childrens Farm will help children learn about, and better understand, rural farm life, including sustainable agriculture, responsible water utilization and good environmental stewardship.
«The Cargill Childrens Farm will allow every visitor to connect with nature through a themed area that will teach people about gardening, tending and harvesting crops,» stated Jody Horner, president of Cargills U.S. meat business based in Wichita. «This will be a fun, safe, interactive place for children, teachers and parents to learn about where there food comes from and how it is produced. Given Cargills historical roots stemming from origins in the Midwest grain business 145 years ago, this is a perfect fit for our community support and were delighted to be involved.»
Key features of the Cargill Childrens Farm include a farm playhouse and related farm structures, a party barn, a windmill a farm implement and tractor display, a crop growing area, raised gardening beds and an irrigation system. This area should increase the number of children currently more than 11,000 annually who receive instruction through Botanicas Youth Environmental Education programs.
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