Mia Everett, a Wewahitchka seventh grader, feeds a sugar cane stalk into the grinder to have its juice squeezed from the cane. [ David Adlerstein | The Star ]
Julia Newsom, a homeschooled fifth grader, daughter of Wesley and Leigh Newsome of Triple J Farms of Stone Mill Creek, shows off Sassy, an American Lamancha dairy goat. She and younger brother third grader J.C. also raise rabbits, chickens, turkeys, and a Nigerian dwarf goat named Pumpkin. [ David Adlerstein | The Star ]
Amy Flowers, who teaches science at Wewahitchka High School, shows off the school’s hydroponics operation. [ David Adlerstein | The Star ]
Wewa seventh grader Conner Olsen brought two of the family’s five hogs, his barrow “Porkules” and sister Ellie’s gilt “Popcorn,” to the Ag Day. He planned to sell two of the family’s largest hogs at a sale in Marianna this month. [ David Adlerstein | The Star ]
Dwayne McFarland stirs a giant kettle of sugarcane juice as it boils down into cane syrup at Wewahitchka High School’s annual Ag Day Nov. 15 for the district’s fifth graders. [ David Adlerstein | The Star ]
Roy Lee Carter directs the students as they harvest sugar cane from the school’s plot. [ David Adlerstein | The Star ]
Leslie Cantu, and husband Steve, talked to the students about Cantu Apiaries tupelo honey operation off Overstreet Road. [ David Adlerstein | The Star ]
Wewa freshman Emily Flowers, left, showed off Scooter, her 24-year-old gelding, with help of her best friend Avery Forehand. [ David Adlerstein | The Star ]
It was a day-long chance to celebrate Gulf County’s rich agricultural history, everything from dairy goats to sugar cane.
At the annual Ag Day Nov. 14 at Wewhitchka High School, fifth grade classes from Port St. Joe and Wewa elementary schools, along with the upper level students studying agricultural science in the two high schools, got a hands-on education in agricultural activities that included sugar cane grinding and syrup making, hydroponics, aquaculture, honeybees, and a row crop station that featured corn, cotton and peanuts.
Former extension agent and now educator Roy Lee Carter; former school administrator Dwayne McFarland; Ray Bodrey and Anitra Mayhann, with UF/IFAS Extension Gulf County; Gulf County 4-H, the Gulf Cattlemen’s Association, and many community volunteers all helped make the event a success.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.
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David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.