{"id":11935,"date":"2018-03-27T00:40:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T00:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=11935"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:20:41","slug":"fair-receives-grant-for-interactive-educational-ag-venue-at-2018-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/fair-receives-grant-for-interactive-educational-ag-venue-at-2018-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair receives grant for interactive educational ag venue at 2018 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11935\" class=\"elementor elementor-11935\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-268f88e6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"268f88e6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74a82e0b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74a82e0b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Madera District Fair was awarded the 2017 CalAgGrant for their proposed \u201ciFarmers Market,\u201d an interactive educational agriculture venue set to open at the 2018 fair.<\/p><p>The activity center will house tablets featuring curriculum applications created by The American Farm Bureau\u2019s My American Farm project. The second side of the kiosk will feature a play farmers\u2019 market where children will be able role play a Day at the iFarmers\u2019 Market making healthy choices from play produce.<\/p><p>A corn box with play tractors, a pedal tractor play area built with hay bales, a play orchard with immersive educational harvesting activities and a farm animal petting zoo will provide further interactive experiences in the area immediately surrounding the kiosk.<\/p><p>Guests in the venue will find educational graphics and information throughout, with special emphasis and celebration of Madera County commodities as provided by the Madera County Farm Bureau.<\/p><p>The venue will be found adjacent to Lumbertown or, most recently referred to as Tech Town, during the annual run of the Fair.<\/p><p>Madera District Fair opens Thursday, Sept. 6, at 5 pm.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madera District Fair was awarded the 2017 CalAgGrant for their proposed \u201ciFarmers Market,\u201d an interactive educational agriculture venue set to open at the 2018 fair. The activity center will house tablets featuring curriculum applications created by The American Farm Bureau\u2019s My American Farm project. The second side of the kiosk will feature a play farmers\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,16],"tags":[25,26,32,50,52],"class_list":["post-11935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-entertainment","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-culture","tag-schools","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}