Little Hands on the Farm

Since 2001, Texas Master Gardeners from across the state have worked at the Little Hands on the Farm exhibit at the State Fair of Texas. The goal of Little Hands on the Farm exhibit is to help children understand how agricultural products get from farm to marketplace.

The farm is an interactive, fun filled adventure for the entire family.  When the children enter the farmyard with their parents, they are given an apron and grocery basket to collect their farm products. As the children move through each of the colorful barns, Master Gardeners instruct and help the children complete their farm chores. 

Each child plants seeds and harvests the crop, milks the cow, collects the eggs, feeds the sheep and chickens and eventually goes to the marketplace to sell the produce. At the end they are rewarded for their hard work with a Texas product they buy at the country store. Along the way, they learn fun facts about how plants grow and how farm animals give us the products we buy in the store. 

This is the only project where Master Gardeners from all over the state participate together. Meet us on the farm at the next State Fair of Texas.