Early and middle years students are getting hands-on lessons in agriculture with the Amazing Agriculture Adventure (AAA) in Brandon.

The two-day event with Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) wraps up today, featuring 18 interactive stations set up to educate the grade four and five students on everything from crushing canola to raising sheep.

Project coordinator Diane Mauthe says it's important for kids to learn more about agriculture to understand where their food comes from.

"Our farmers are good stewards of the land and they care for their animals," she says. "There are so many students that don't get to experience seeing live animals like sheep, like they do here (at AAA), and they don't get to ever see a combine right in front of them... So it's really just to educate them all about the different aspects of agriculture."

Mauthe adds each kid walks away having learned something, but it may be something different for each student.

"When I think of some of the comments last year, there were some students that thought flour came from marshmallows, and after they were at this event, they knew it came from wheat," she says, "so when I hear those comments or see those written statements, it certainly comes across very clearly that we need to continue doing this and educating them."

While this event was focused more toward students in western Manitoba, the program was also held in Winnipeg in the fall, and Russell in the early spring.