Agri-Fest celebrates 25 years
PHOTO BY AL PALMER
Carole McKenzie, Director of Polk County Farm Burea, looks through the papers for the Agri-Fest which begins on March 11.
PHOTO BY AL PALMER
Executive Director of the Polk County Farm Bureau Carole McKenzie and her Program Coordinator Sharon Wheeler are steering this year's Agri-Fest for Polk County fourth-grade students.
In 1988, Polk County’s Agriculture Extension Agent Jim Stricker and then Polk Farm Bureau Director Leah Lauderdale brainstormed an idea that took root and grew into today’s Agri-Fest that gives about 6,000 Polk County fourth-graders a hands-on glimpse of Polk County’s economic backbone.
This month’s Agri-Fest at the W.H. Stewart Agriculture Center on U.S. Highway 17 in Bartow will be held March 11-15 and March 18-22 from 8:30 a.m. until noon, according to this year’s leader and chief organizer Polk Farm Bureau Director Carole McKenzie.
