By Jolie Peal
Gifford Farm, an agricultural education center in Bellevue, will expand its lessons to include sustainability with a $103,446 grant to install solar panels.
Troy Glock, program manager for Educational Service Unit #3, which owns the farm, said it had around 22,000 visitors this past year. Most of the lessons and activities revolve around agricultural and animal science education with a hands-on emphasis.
“With our farm program, we try to let the kids get up close and touch and feel and smell our animals, to just have that experience, get up close and personal to the animals,” Glock said. “That goes for all of our programs.”
The farm has applied for the Greener Together grant with the Omaha Public Power District and United Way of the Midlands for a few years, and this year, it finally got it. The grant will go toward installing around 40 solar panels on the farm’s main building.
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