Catoosa County Farm Bureau announces winners of art contests Georgia Foundation for Agriculture and Georgia EMC donate agriculture books to Catoosa County Library
Catoosa County student Ryder Stevenson and Natalia Celis are the winners of the Catoosa County Farm Bureau Middle School Bookmark and High School Art Contests, respectively.
Stevenson, a sixth-grade student at Ringgold Middle School, won $50 for winning the CCFB Bookmark Contest, which was open to sixth- through eighthgrade students. Bookmark contest participants were provided a blank bookmark and asked to draw a picture that depicts some aspect of Georgia agriculture. Students were allowed to use crayons, markers or colored pencils to create their bookmark. As the county winner, Stevenson’s winning bookmark advanced to the Georgia Farm Bureau District 1 Bookmark Contest.
Celis, a student at Georgia Cyber Academy, won $50 for winning the CCFB High School Art Contest, which was open to ninth- through twelfth-grade students. Art contest participants were asked to draw a picture that depicts some aspect of Georgia agriculture. Students were allowed to use a variety of media to create their artwork, including graphite, charcoal, pastel, chalk, colored pencil, pen-and-ink, ballpoint pen or mixed media appropriate for printing to create their artwork. As the county winner, Celis’ winning artwork advanced to the Georgia Farm Bureau District 1 High School Art Contest.
Catoosa County Farm Bureau thanks each student and teacher who participated in the contests. To learn more about Georgia Farm Bureau, visit www.gfb.org.
The Georgia Foundation for Agriculture and Georgia Electric Membership Corporation are jointly promoting agricultural literacy by donating copies of the children’s book “I Love Strawberries” to nearly 400 libraries in the Georgia Public Library Service.
The Georgia Foundation for Agriculture and Georgia EMC have given each county Farm Bureau in Georgia enough books for every public library in the county. Catoosa County Farm Bureau recently delivered a copy of the book to the Catoosa County Library.
“I Love Strawberries,” written by Shannon Anderson and illustrated by Jaclyn Sinquett, follows Jolie and her faithful rabbit, Munchy, as together
they find out just how delicious, rewarding and complicated it can be to grow your own food. Through Jolie’s scrapbookstyle journal entries, young readers learn how strawberries grow, what pests to look
out for in a garden, why ladybugs are helpful, and much more. The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture selected the book as its 2023 Book of the Year for its accurate and positive
portrayal of agriculture.
The GFA began donating accurate books about agriculture to each public library in Georgia in 2016. Georgia EMC joined the foundation in this endeavor in 2018.