Virginia Mobile Agriculture Education Laboratory

The Virginia Agriculture Mobile Education Unit

Overview

The Virginia Agriculture Mobile Education Unit is an interactive educational tool that showcases the Commonwealth’s largest private industry, agriculture and forestry, while demonstrating the valuable role it plays in our daily lives. When visitors enter the unit, they will learn about the remarkable diversity of Virginia’s agriculture, its history, its people, and the latest innovations and career opportunities that are leading us into the future.

When you reserve the Mobile Agriculture Education Unit, we bring the agriculture classroom to your school, business or community. You will learn the importance of agriculture in our daily lives and where our food comes from by seeing, hearing and touching fun and dynamic exhibits. The unit is ideal for K-12 students, as well as adults, in urban, suburban and rural areas across the Commonwealth.

Mobile Education Unit Highlights

Provides a fun and interactive way to introduce the “world of agriculture and forestry,” including water quality, nutrition, environmental sustainability, animals and livestock, business and economics, food production, and more.
Showcases the many types of career opportunities within Virginia’s largest private industry, agriculture.
Demonstrates how agriculture has transformed into a high-tech industry, relying on the latest advances in computer science, GPS, drones, data and more to produce our daily meals.
Inspires young people to be more adventurous and healthy eaters, while developing a curiosity about where their food comes from.
Uses virtual reality technology to all participants to “visit” with Virginia beef, dairy, aquaculture, timber and vegetable farmers.