Ag Venture Program at The Landing

09/10/2026

Agriculture education provided to Oregon students in the Butte Falls School District, generously funded by the Morris Family Foundation, in collaboration with the Butte Falls Community School Partnership.

09/09/2026

Today in Butte Falls Charter School AgVenture Program elective class, high school students dissected honeybees, inspecting and identify honeybee body parts.

Did you know......Honeybee Fun Facts:

Honeybees have 4 wings, not 2
Honeybees have wax glands on their belly between the segments of their abdomen

05/08/2026

With Agriculture for Life – we just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

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04/21/2026

With Agriculture for Life – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉

04/10/2026

April 9th The AgVenture Program hosted an all-day field trip for the Butte Falls High School Students; 8th-12th grade.

Ashland Greenhouses was our first stop. What a great tour, learning how the greenhouses heat and cool and how efficiently they are built. Plant production is the name of the game; the transplanting machine saves a lot of time and plants each seedling accurately in its new pot. Large amounts of plant orders are shipped out daily; to smaller stores such as Grange Co-op, some orders go as far south as Mt. Shasta. Showing up on time and being honest and a hard worker will get you a job here; plant knowledge is not required. June and July are the slow times in this greenhouse business as most of the plants are sold by Mother's Day.

Lithia Park, tasting the mineral water and hanging out at the park was our next stop.

The Farm at SOU was the next stop. This farm grows food for SOU Cafeteria, The Hawk and the Ashland School District. Grapes are a newer addition to this farm. Various types and stages of compost were also explained to us. Near the end of our visit, we put on gloves and did some hand weeding underneath the grapevines.

We then ate lunch at The Hawk Cafeteria at SOU. Students were able to select anything they wanted to eat and as much as they wanted.

Great day spent in Ashland. Thank you to community members Wendy Bettencourt and Harold Leonardo, and Butte Falls Librarian Shone Ellis, and Kari our amazing bus driver.

04/10/2026

April 8th The Learning Tree Preschoolers had a special visitor. Art, the Community Garden Manager dropped by during garden class.

Art had found an unusually large worm outside and wanted to share it with the class, as we have been studying worms. Art shared more worm facts with us.

We love getting to take out a question card out of the curious questions jar!

Rainbows were painted on rocks. And last but not least there was a wheelbarrow race. Soon we will be using the wheelbarrows out in the Community Garden.