The latest educator resource from the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture is now available. The Feeding Minds – Cultivating Growth guide and accompanying books will be available for purchase online early next week. The curriculum teaches young people to care for others, build healthy relationships and learn from their elders while living vicariously through the narrative of young farmers and ranchers.

The educator’s guide supports classroom reading of one or more of Farm Bureau-designated accurate ag books. It also includes standards-based lesson plans, take-home enrichment activities, supporting handouts, summarizing information about each text, a suggested implementation plan and a scoring rubric for a final project.

Fifteen of the class sets of books and educator’s guides will be given away this fall thanks to a generous donation by Random House. Interested middle school educators can contact their state Farm Bureau Agricultural Literacy Coordinator. Contact the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture by emailing foundation at fb dot org ([email protected]) for more information.