25th Anniversary

Silver Anniversary Host Committee

Kenny Watkins
CFAITC

Gloria Alesso
Los Angeles County Farm Bureau

Brad Bittleston
Interstate Ag Plastics

Bill Dale
California Beef Council

Paul Ecke
Paul Ecke Ranch

Melanie Fowle
California CattleWomen

Casey Garten
Bank of the West

Kevin Herglotz
HPA Strategies

Jim Hicks
Jim Hicks and Company

A.G. Kawamura
Orange County Produce

Eric Larson
San Diego County Farm Bureau

Dave Lawson
Lawson & Associates

Michael A. Mellano
Mellano & Company

Frost Pauli
CFBF Young Farmers & Ranchers

Steve Pearson
American AgCredit

Barry Powell

Allan Price
Orange County Land Management Services

Kathye Rietkerk
Kallisto Greenhouses

David Schwabauer
Leavens Ranches

Celeste Settrini
California Women for Agriculture

Terry Stark
CAPCA

John Sweeney
Dairy Procurement Group LLC

Craig Thomson
Zenith AgriBusiness Solutions

Paul Wenger
California Farm Bureau

Chris Zanobini
California Pear Advisory Board

Resource development

Cathie Bradley
CJB & Associates, LLC

AITC celebrates 25 years of bringing agriculture into California's classrooms!

From its inception in 1986, California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom has served as a resource for educators and their students, and an advocate for farming and ranching families. With the support of passionate educators like you, volunteers and industry partners, our tools and programs for agricultural education are touching the lives of millions of students across our state.

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In The News

San Francisco Chronicle
SF Farm Day brings surprise to urban schools (Oct. 21, 2011)
Public Affairs Programming - CBS Radio
Walt Shaw interviews Judy Culbertson (mp3)

25 Stories

Read testimonies from individuals that have helped shape the organization and have been greatly impacted by the Foundation's efforts.

Assembly Resolution

Read the assembly resolution marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom.

CFAITC "By the Numbers"

25 years of developing and providing free, high-quality, teacher tested and factually-accurate resources to support common sense integration of agriculture in California classrooms.

154,000 agriculturally themed stories written by students for our Imagine this... Story Writing Contest.

4,500,000 copies of our What's Growin' On? student newspaper printed and distributed in classrooms and homes across the state.

10,000,000 students' lives touched by CFAITC programs and resources... and growing.

13,500 individual educators, administrators, volunteers, and agriculture industry representatives are AITC Ambassadors.

100 partnering agriculture and education organizations.

700,000 agriculturally themed CFAITC lesson plans downloaded.

5,547 pre-service student teachers participated in agricultural literacy workshops.