This week’s Food Farm event in Swift Current was another success.

About 160 Grade 3 students from Swift Current and area schools took part in this week’s Food Farm event.

This was the first time at the Food Farm event for Shawna Morsite a Grade 2-3 teacher at the Kyle Composite School.

She says the kids were excited adding it’s a great learning opportunity.

"I think it's a great opportunity for some hands-on learning, something which we focus on in our classroom a lot," Morsite said. "The kids get to experience so many different stages of the farming and agriculture process."

This year’s theme the Great Canadian Breakfast featured a wide variety of stations with everything from chickens and pigs to bees as well as beef and dairy cows, the kids learned how crops grow and how to plant a garden.

Linda Metke operates a very successful Market Garden and U pick operation, Treasure Valley Markets at Cadillac and was one of the volunteers involved in the day.

"I find it really important, it's good to teach the young ones where your potatoes come from and how they grow because you're growing your own supper," Metke said.

The seedlings they planted will now grow over the summer with the kids who will then be in Grade 4 returning for the harvest.

A food farm event was also held in Moose Jaw and in Kindersley.