KSU's College of Agriculture partners with The Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center
FRANKFORT — Kentucky State University’s (KSU) College of Agriculture, Communities, and the Environment is partnering with The Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center in Lexington to educate middle school and high school students about urban agriculture and sustainable food production.
Fresh-OP at The Lyric is an eight-part workshop series that will give students hands-on experience in designing, planning, and planting a garden in an urban setting. The students will be given information about each of the gardening processes – such as barrel gardening, vertical gardens, aquaponics gardening, raised bed gardening, and straw bale gardening – as well as in-person demonstrations and the seeds and tools necessary to complete the project. Agriculture experts from KSU will help facilitate the projects, and students will take home weekly giveaways.
KSU student Trevor Claiborn performs as Farmer Brown Tha MC.
An exciting partnership between the land grant University and the historic cultural arts center, The Lyric will offer an emphasis on diverse culture, African-American heritage, and the arts to this educational program.
The workshop series will run for eight Saturdays between February 11 and May 20 and aims to introduce the concepts of food production and self-sustainability to help students understand where their food comes from and illustrate that anyone can produce their own food.
KSU Agriculture, Food, and Environment student and farm technician Trevor Claiborn, also known as Farmer Brown Tha MC, will lead the Fresh-OP workshops and encourage students to get involved in urban agriculture. As Farmer Brown, Claiborn produces educational hip-hop songs and videos based on agriculture and the natural sciences. His programs for middle and high school students educate young people on how to produce sustainable and efficient foods and goods as well as teaches them innovative ways to learn about environmental science.
Registration runs from February 1st through February 11.
Registration is online:
http://www.lexingtonlyric.com.
For more information please contact Trevor Claiborn at Trevor.Claiborn@KYSU.edu or call The Lyric at (859)-280-2201
To learn more about Farmer Brown’s initiative, explore some of his videos:
Promotional video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zj4hL-BH6U
Music videos –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbjfaSWeOR8