Jerry Verrico, New Jersey Agricultural Society board of trustees president, and Carolyn Taylor, Learning Through Gardening director, honored students from Bowne-Munro Elementary School in East Brunswick for their winning submissions in the “Eat a Rainbow” poster contest. Pictured from left: Noah Viot, David Farber and Daniel Koong. Not pictured is Jayden Casamassima. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NEW JERSEYAGRICULTURAL SOCIETY EAST BRUNSWICK — Several students from Bowne-Munro Elementary School are the winners of the New Jersey Agricultural Society’s annual Farm-City Week Poster Contest.
Students in kindergarten through third grade from 15 New Jersey schools participated. The New Jersey Agricultural Society chose one contest winner from each school at each grade level. From those winners, a statewide grand prizewinner was chosen for each grade level.
First-grader Noah Viot, secondgraders Jayden Casamassima and David Farber, and third-grader Daniel Koong received accolades for their submissions.
Farber and Koong also won the statewide grand prizes for their grade levels.
This year’s theme was “Eat a Rainbow.” The students were asked to show why it is important to “eat a rainbow” of different-colored fruits and vegetables for their various vitamins and nutrients.
The annual poster contest is part of the New Jersey Agricultural Society’s Learning Through Gardening program, which provides materials to schools to build vegetable gardens that are used as outdoor classrooms. The program also provides training and curriculum to teachers to assist them in the inclusion of garden activities in everyday lessons in all subjects.