Photo submitted to Times Observer Tidioute Community Charter School junior Jolynn Durlin reads My Family’s Soybean Farm to TCCS second graders during Ag Literacy Week.

Ag Literacy Week connects community volunteers from the agriculture community with classrooms.

At Tidioute Community Charter School, the volunteer came out of one of the classrooms.

Jolynn Durlin, who is a Warren County 4-H member, went from her 11th-grade classroom to read to the second-grade class.

Durlin talked about agriculture and local 4-H programs and opportunities.

She also read the 2022 Ag Literacy Book of the Year, “My Family’s Soybean Farm,” by Katie Olthoff.

The book is about farming for a sustainable future and details the day-to-day activities of a farming family through the eyes of a boy who lives on the family farm.

“The book showcases the importance of agriculture in our daily lives,” according to a TCCS release. “The readers learned about how plants grow, the nutrients they need to grow and how they are harvested. The book highlighted how farmers care for their land and how farming practices have changed over the years using modern technology.”

The class was able to keep the copy of My Family’s Soybean Farm as well as The Barn at Night by Michelle Houts.

Ag Literacy Week programming is sponsored by Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation.