Source: US State of Pennsylvania
June 07, 2025 – Harrisburg, PA
ADVISORY – HARRISBURG – Growing Tomorrow’s Workforce – Shapiro Administration to Host Area K-8 Students for Hands-On Agriculture Career Inspiration, Exploration
Agriculture Secretary and Acting Education Secretary Dr. Carrie Rowe will join area K-8 students for a highlights tour of Farm City Day – a day of hands-on agriculture career inspiration and exploration at the PA Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. The event is part of the Shapiro Administration’s commitment to creating opportunities for meaningful careers for all Pennsylvania students and growing the skilled workforce ag employers need to keep Pennsylvania a national ag leader in the future.
Throughout two school days, more than 1,300 students from Carlisle, Central Dauphin, Conewago, Harrisburg, Lower Dauphin, Muhlenberg, Reading, Schuylkill Valley, Susquehanna, Warrior Run, and West Shore School Districts, as well as private, charter, and homeschool students from across southcentral PA will encounter horses, rabbits, lambs, and pigs up close, and learn about careers from dairy farming and beekeeping to sustainable forestry, plant science, and animal care.
WHAT:
2025 Farm City Day – media availability and brief highlight tour
WHO:
Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding
Acting Education Secretary Dr. Carrie Rowe
Educators and students from across southcentral Pennsylvania
WHEN:
Wednesday, May 7, 11:30 a.m.
WHERE:
PA Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, 2300 N. Cameron Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110
(Enter Main Hall via Maclay St. Lobby entrance)
RSVP:
Media wishing to attend should RSVP to Shannon Powers, shpowers@pa.gov.
Contact:
shpowers@pa.gov, 717.603.2056