While items like apps and smart boards are great tools, there’s no substitute for hands-on learning.

The Norfolk County Fair and Horse Show provides a unique opportunity for youngsters – and adults – to get up close and personal with farm animals and crops.

“It’s so vitally important,” said Anissa Krakar of Windham Centre, NCF’s Agriculture Awareness Chair. “It’s just so refreshing and exciting to see that smile and the excitement when kids see a goat for the first time or see a cow for the first time. They just light right up, and I hope that really imprints on their memories.”

“People remember it for the rest of their lives, and that’s what’s important to us.”

Building 5 – also known as the CIBC Aud – is, as always, filled this year with dozens of animals and agricultural learning o

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