{"id":310864,"date":"2026-10-20T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310864\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:32:10","slug":"great-allentown-fair-teaches-city-kids-all-about-agriculture-through-education-days-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310864\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Allentown Fair teaches ‘city kids’ all about agriculture through education days | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – From sheep shearing to pumpkin painting and pony petting, Allentown “city slickers” were getting a fresh taste of the country inside the Agri-Plex at the Allentown Fairgrounds on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be a fun day,” said James Arce, a fourth grader within the Allentown School District.<\/p>\n

The Great Allentown Fair is teaching local youth where their food, clothing and even honey come from.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to teach the city kids, as we call them, about agriculture,” said Beverly Gruber, CEO of the Great Allentown Fair.\u00a0“Many of them have never even touched a sheep or a pony or that kind of thing.”<\/p>\n

“Most of these kids are separated from the agriculture world,” said Roger Bowman, owner of Winterside Farm in Berks County. “So I think it’s really important just to have them see the animals and know why we raise them and also where their food and fiber comes from.”<\/p>\n

Each year, the annual Agriculture Education Days<\/a> welcome all fourth graders across the Allentown School District.<\/p>\n

Now in its fifth year, it’s expanded to third through fifth graders in one local private school \u2013 St. John Vianney Regional \u2013 as well.<\/p>\n

Gruber says the applesauce-making booth always surprises kids.<\/p>\n

“That’s the one that I think is the most amazing,” Gruber said. “They don’t understand that applesauce comes from apples.”<\/p>\n

Kids also can learn about chickens and their embryos, as well as how to milk a fake, life-sized cow.<\/p>\n

“I learned what chickens eat and what they do and how they eat food,” Esmeralda Acevedo, another fourth grader within the Allentown School District, said.<\/p>\n

A beekeeper was also standing by to teach kids all about the apiary.<\/p>\n

“There can be more than 10,000 bees in the beehive,” fourth grader, James, said. “And there are only one queen bee in each beehive.”<\/p>\n

All in all, Gruber said, some 1,800 students will come through the Education Days, including a couple hundred more on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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