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Teacher Tours

What is a teacher tour?

The Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom Program (MAITC) is excited to offer a unique summer professional development opportunity for K-12 educators. Our Summer Teacher Tours allow educators to observe and experience current agricultural production, processing and distribution techniques, as well as exposure to a wealth of standards-based, agriculture themed lesson plans and resources. Participants will network and share how they intend to use these experiences and resources to integrate agriculture into their curricula to improve student achievement by applying authentic agricultural examples to teach core curriculum concepts in science, social studies, language arts, math and nutrition.

2024 Summer Teacher Tours

Discover Minnesota's vast agricultural diversity and bring it back to your classroom! Teacher Tours are designed to give educators hands-on experience with Minnesota agriculture and have a good time while doing it!

Submit to Your District

Need to submit a payment request to your district to attend? Use the fillable form below! Online registration is still required even if your district is mailing in payment. 

The Hands that Feed Us

Discover the journey your food takes from farm to plate by learning directly from the hands that feed us: Farmers. On this teacher tour you will have the opportunity to tour and connect directly with farmers who are growing and raising food for not only their local communities, but the world. You will walk away from this experience with a deeper personal understanding of where food comes from. In addition to a deeper appreciation of Minnesota agriculture, you will be equipped with resources and knowledge to bring back to your students in the fall. Best of all, the connections and collaboration you will forge with other area educators will expand your insights about how others are bringing agriculture learning into their classroom experiences.

Beginning and Ending Location: Compeer Financial, Mankato, MN

Time: 8:00am - 5:30pm

Orchard to Market

If teachers were apples, we would pick you to join us as we learn about how this tasty fruit is researched, grown, and made into delicious products in the Twin Cities. This summer, we will go on a wagon ride amongst the trees of Pine Tree Apple Orchard as we learn about plant growth, insect and pest management, weather protection, tree care and their connection with University of Minnesota research. We will step behind-the-scenes at Bix Produce Co. to learn about produce processing and distribution from one of the area’s leading produce distributors. Bailey Nurseries is excited to share how their locations are involved with fruit and landscape plant production locally, as well as across the country. Finish the day by having your taste buds tickled with apple beverages at Pine Tree Apple Orchard.

Beginning and Ending Location: Pine Tree Apple Orchard, White Bear Lake, MN

Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Farm, Fiber and Fabrication

Join us for an exciting exploration of agricultural found in northern Minnesota. We’ll start the day at Wells Technology and be immersed in their Fabrication and manufacturing processes that have ties to John Deere as well as many other important businesses and industries. Next, we’ll investigate Fiber and the process of using wool to create garments, blankets and more at Bemidji Woolen Mills. This teacher  tour will also take you to the Gustafson beef and crop Farm to dig into food production and conservation.  A delicious farm-to-table lunch, and time to build connections with fellow educators while filling your tool box with standards-based, ag-themed resources will be part of the FUN

Beginning and Ending Location: Wells Technology, Bemidji, MN

Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Stay in Touch with MN Ag in the Classroom!

Learn more about past teacher tours!

Harvest of the Month

Harvest of the Month Tour

By Katie Goodthunder | July 31, 2023

Minnesota Ag in the Classroom hosted the last Summer Teacher Tour of 2023 on July 20th, the focus of this tour was on Harvest of the Month. We traveled down […]

Finding Food for All

Find Food for All Tour

By Katie Goodthunder | July 19, 2023

  Agriculture relates to so much more than farmers and consumers, it is a larger system that has the ability to support and nourish communities. On this tour we learned […]

Mystery Tour

It’s a Mystery Tour

By skuglin | June 23, 2023

Educators joined us for a teacher tour where we showcased and experienced the unique and diverse parts of North Central Minnesota; and the best part was they didn’t even know […]

A Day in the Life of a Farmer

A Day in the Life of a Farmer

By skuglin | June 22, 2023

Farming is a complex profession that relies on a team of experts to successfully manage a farm business. This teacher tour gave educators the opportunity to tour and explore different […]

Teacher Tours Registration Deadline 1

Why Attend Teacher Tours?

By skuglin | April 25, 2023

Summer is the time of the year when educators often have well-deserved time off as well as take in learning yourself. Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom has the perfect mix […]

2022 Teacher Tour: Field to French Fry

Field to French Fry

By Heather | July 29, 2022

Experience your very own Farm Camp tour with RD Offutt Farms! Go on a behind the scenes look at a potato’s journey from field to french fry during our Virtual Farm Camp Experience with director, Ann Vote.

2022 Teacher Tour: High Tech Farming

High Tech Farming

By Heather | July 27, 2022

Minnesota agriculture is filled with unique and diverse businesses throughout the state. This tour will feature a couple unique family owned and operated stops and lunch from a local favorite that prides themselves on handcrafting fresh foods to make people feel good. We will also have time to share our favorite classroom activities and all the resources Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom has to offer.

2022 Teacher Tour: Cows, Creamery and Cooperage

Cows, Creamery and the Cooperage

By Heather | July 25, 2022

Minnesota agriculture is filled with unique and diverse businesses throughout the state. This tour will feature a couple unique family owned and operated stops and lunch from a local favorite that prides themselves on handcrafting fresh foods to make people feel good. We will also have time to share our favorite classroom activities and all the resources Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom has to offer.

2022 Teacher Tour: Agriculture Local to Global

Agriculture: Local to Global

By Heather | June 27, 2022

Are agricultural products grown in Minnesota exported all over the world? Do Minnesota farmers provide food for our state’s citizens? The answer to both these questions is yes! This three-day tour investigated both local and global agriculture and food systems. This tour was offered in partnership with the Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education (MAGE) and was funded through a grant from the National Geographic Society.

Soil-Fuels-Success-Teacher-Tour

Soil Fuels Success

By skuglin | August 2, 2021

When discovering and investigating what agriculture is, many people disregard the resource that is at the heart of almost all agricultural production, soil! During this virtual tour, participants focused on how soil fuels success on a Minnesota Crop Farm.

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