How To Adopt A Child In California

[ music ] >> the village of clarksburg isa little more than 165 years old and it's always beenagriculturally based. everything out here hasalways been centered around agriculture.

How To Adopt A Child In California, used to be a time wheneverybody came off the farm. now, hardly anybodycomes off the farm. we're down to one or two percentof the general population, now. and, so, giving thekids a little background

on what it takesto grow their food and harvest their foodhas really been exciting. >> put a hole insomething, right? what you do is takethis drill bit and put it in this piece here. this is called a chuckand you turn it on. >> community participation andeducation is really important. i think that's one of themajor problems that we face in american educationin general.

it's there seems to bethis huge disconnect. seems like we need to get backto our roots a little bit. and more in particular towhat i do for a living, i'm a farmer and i plant seeds. it's what i do for aliving and this is very much like planting seeds inkids' brains and minds to see what comes of it. >> we really decidedearly on to take advantage of our local community and here

in clarksburg it's ourwonderful clarksburg farmers. so we made student engagement and our outdoor classroomsomething that was very important to howwe were going to engage kids in a far different waythan what we normally saw in traditional public schools. the fact that we have localfarmers that are willing to sacrifice their timeto allow our kids to learn in their environment here inclarksburg was very important.

>> a big job. it could take a couple of days. if you've got a little problem[multiple speakers] agriculture, now this is a great opportunityto put them on farms, have them understand whatthey're driving by every day when they come to school. >> and you clamp itdown really tight, okay. then you can hammer onit, you can wrench on it, you can do all thestuff you need to do.

when i was in highschool the ffa program, it really wasn't vibrant and now at the high school they havetwo ffa teachers, you know, kids are driving pickup trucksand listening to country music and when i went toschool we were, you know, kids were driving camarosand listening to rap music. starting the kids young,it's a great thing. >> if you finish yourhomework you can watch tv. [ background sounds ]

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