Bill Text: NJ A3811 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes "Adopt-A-Farm" school partnership program in public secondary schools.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-05 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [A3811 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-A3811-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman BOB ANDRZEJCZAK
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Assemblyman ERIC HOUGHTALING
District 11 (Monmouth)
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Taliaferro and Calabrese
SYNOPSIS
Establishes "Adopt-A-Farm" school partnership program in public secondary schools.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act establishing an "Adopt-A-Farm" school partnership program and supplementing Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, shall establish and coordinate a farm-based education program, to be called the "Adopt-a-Farm" school partnership program, which may be instituted at public secondary schools.
A school and farm partnership may include, but need not be limited to, students supplying materials, preparing soil for planting, planting crops, harvesting, gleaning, setting up an irrigation system, ploughing a field, cutting grass, tilling beds, watering plants, weeding, milking cows, feeding animals, cleaning pens, general maintenance, and participating in the daily chores of running the farm.
The level of involvement between a school and a farm shall be determined by the partnership.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would establish a farm-based education program, called the "Adopt-a-Farm" school partnership program in public schools. The level of involvement between the school and the farm will be determined by each partnership. Students may be involved in supplying materials, preparing soil for planting, planting crops, harvesting, gleaning, setting up an irrigation system, ploughing a field, cutting grass, tilling beds, watering plants, weeding, milking cows, feeding animals, cleaning pens, general maintenance, and participating in the daily chores of running the farm.
This program should serve to increase awareness of the important role that local, fresh produce plays in promoting good health and of its availability in the State, as well as develop an educated agricultural workforce and accelerate garden and farm-based education for public school students in the State.
