Flat Aggie « COUNTRY LINKed

This time of year farmers and ranchers are either really busy or things are slow. For us, things are kind of slow. For my friend Nicole, Tales of a Kansas Farm Mom, things are really busy! They are right in the middle of spring calving, she is working on Flat Aggie Reports and they have a conference to go to next week. Talk about busy! To keep things rolling on her blog, she started a new Blog Party and is calling it the Country Fair Blog Party. Who doesn’t love a County Fair! I know I do and I look forward to July every year and going to our local fair. Now we don’t have to wait until July for the County Fair!

Here is how this blog party works: Bloggers all across the country can post a link from one of their blog posts on Nicole’s blog. She is hoping that others will post something in line with the County Fair theme; like a great recipe, a fun project or something that farmers are doing right then. By going to Nicole’s blog, you can find lots of fun blog posts from different bloggers all in one spot. FUN!

This week I submitted the blog post, “25 Years in the Making“. It is a post from August 31, 2012 and talks about a project we built in the timber for Gpa. For future posts to the party I hope to contribute projects, recipes and Farm Picture Friday photos.

Want to come party County Fair Style with us? Check out this weeks party and check back weekly for more!

Blessings to you,

Laurie – Country Link

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The Kansas Farm Mom asked for volunteers for a project she was working on with her son’s first grade class. She needed farmers/ranchers/agricultural folks who were willing to do a report about their farm and or ranch and send it back to the class. She hoped for seven volunteers so that there would be a report for the last seven weeks of school. Because I love things like this and because I knew the kids would enjoy it too, I volunteered right away. Little did I know that this would turn into something that we would never forget.

The name of this project was called The Flatt Aggie Project. What is a Flat Aggie? Flat Aggie is a cardboard character that the class designed. She is based on a children’s book character Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is, well, flat, and he can travel through the postal service. His friends send him all over the world to learn about different places. The Kansas Farm Mom and first grade teacher Mrs. Piatt knew of a similar project at The House That Ag Built and decided to do something like it to bring agriculture into this first grade classroom.

We were the first farm to receive Flat Aggie and her report has already been give to Mrs. Paitt’s class. To read it please go to:

http://talesofakansasfarmmom.blogspot.com/2013/03/flat-aggie-in-northern-missouri.html

Flat Aggie has also visited her second farm, Heim Dairy, a dairy farm in northeast Kansas. To read all about that adventure go to:

http://talesofakansasfarmmom.blogspot.com/2013/04/flat-aggie-visits-northeast-kansas-dairy.html

I took a lot of pictures while Flatt Aggie was here. You may have seen some of them on the FaceBook page. We figured that it may be a little over whelming for the students, so I only sent a few to Kansas Farm Mom. I would like to share more with you. I hope you enjoy! If you have any questions about this project or would like to learn more, please comment below.

Blessings to you,

Laurie – Country Link