BATH, N.Y. — Come check out the CCE Steuben Fair Booth August 16-21 in the 4-H Building at the Steuben County Fair in Bath. You don’t want to miss the Pollinator Education and Monarch Metamorphosis display or the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program’s herb & spices information.
Did you know that if we lived in a world without pollinators, we would not have apples, blueberries, strawberries, chocolate, almonds, melons, peaches, or pumpkins? In fact, it is estimated that pollinators contribute to roughly 1 of every 3 bites of food we eat! Stop by our booth to view monarch caterpillars munching on common milkweed and some that have already changed into chrysalises! Perhaps you will be lucky enough to see a chrysalis change into a butterfly! Take a few moments to learn more about pollinator contributions to agriculture, healthy ecosystems, and culture and don’t forget to grab educational resources and read our poster display with pollinator facts! See if you can answer the Pollinator Challenge Question! And pick up a free Pollinator Poster at the front office in the 4-H Building – but hurry – only 10 posters given out each day!
The 4-H youth will also be busy all week. Come check out their Vegetable Art Contest on Friday evening and their Flower Arranging and Cookie and Cake Decorating Contests on Saturday morning. There will be a Silent Auction Cake Auction at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. And the youth have been working all year to prepare for the 4-H and FFA Market Animal Sale in the Livestock Showring on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Come support our youth and bid on an animal!
For the full 4-H Fair calendar visit here:Â https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.cce.cornell.edu/attachments/57533/2022_County_Fair_Schedule.pdf?1654705307. There are plenty of animal shows all week long.
For more information contact CCE Steuben at 607-664-2300 or visit PutKnowledgeToWork.org.
–CCE Steuben County