Farming just got a lot safer for kids in Chatham-Kent.
Chatham-Kent Farm Safety Day offers children ages 5 to 12 a series of workshops and activities geared towards learning different safety practices around the farm. Over 100 children and parents attended this year's event, which was held on Tuesday at the University of Guelph Ridgetown campus.
Coordinator Cassi Boersma has led Farm Safety Day alongside her sister Angela Vyn for the past two years.
"Living in such a rural community and growing up on a family farm ourselves, I've learned the importance of safety on the farm and learning about different aspects of it," says Boersma.
Boersma says the event features eight different workshops, including tractor safety, electrical safety, fire safety, first aid and CPR, ATV safety, grain safety, germ safety, and a power take-off demonstration at the end.
"If they just take one thing from today, that's all that we ask. Whether it's from tractor safety or ATV safety and they go home and say to mom and dad 'look what I learned today,' we are more than happy," says Boersma.
Boersma says she has already signed up to coordinate next year's Farm Safety Day in Ridgetown.
