Mayors Tim Eskew (Garden City), Donnis Leeth (Colony) and Johnny Dyar (Baileyton) display the Farm City proclamation Wednesday morning at Top of the Town. / W.C. Mann
CULLMAN – At a breakfast in downtown Cullman’s Top of the Town Wednesday morning, the Cullman Farm-City Committee proclaimed Nov. 17-23 Farm-City Week in Cullman County. Farm-City Week is celebrated each year beginning on the Friday prior to and ending on Thanksgiving Day. The stated purpose of Farm-City Week is “to bring about a better understanding between rural and urban people by increasing their knowledge and appreciation of each other as partners in progress.”
The proclamation was signed by the mayors of Cullman, Colony, Good Hope, Baileyton, Garden City, Fairview and West Point, as well as all three members of the Cullman County Commission. Also in attendance was State Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Fairview, along with representatives of Cullman County Economic Development, the Cullman County Emergency Management Agency, the North Alabama Agriplex, Cullman Regional and other organizations.
Farm-City Committee Chairperson Lynda Hankey opened the breakfast meeting by saying to the political and organizational leaders present, “For the last five years, we’ve been the number one farm city of Alabama, and prior to that, for seven years we were second in the state of Alabama. And we could not do this without the support that you give us, for us to be able to do what we do, and so we’d like to say ‘thank you’ to you for that.”
The theme for Farm-City Week 2017 is “Agriculture: Food for Life.” Committee Vice Chair Bonnie Baty listed events leading up to and including the celebration:
- Children’s activities at two of Cullman’s 2nd Fridays events this past summer
- Honey Bee farming display at Farm Y’all
- Jerry and Sherry Bonner, 2017 City Family of the Year, represented the organization in the Cullman Fair Parade.
- Exhibits were displayed at the Cullman County Fair.
- Farmer’s breakfast Saturday, Oct. 21 at the Festhalle Farmers’ Market
- Committee members will be working at Peinhardt Farm Day on Saturday, Oct. 21
- Tour of Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens, the Golden Flake Potato Chip plant and Jones Valley Teaching Farm on Monday, Oct. 23
- Children’s Farm-City activities at Vinemont Elementary School on Friday, Oct. 27
- Children’s farm musical at Holly Pond Elementary School on Friday, Oct. 27
- Sweet Potato Cookoff at the North Alabama Agriplex on Tuesday, Nov. 14
- Farm-City Poster Contest, with winners to be recognized at the Farm-to-Fork Banquet
- Farm-City Farm-to-Fork Banquet at the Cullman Civic Center on Thursday, Nov. 16
For more information on Cullman Farm-City, visit www.cullmanfarmcity.org.
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