Learn while helping

To some this doesn’t sound very fun.. learning. BLAH! But, the Wheat Foods Council just launched a Web site to help people understand where their food comes from. They are taking and interactive field to fork approach and put an added incentive on the assingment. That incentive is to provide bags of flour to troops and their families in need. With each person that completes the “farming” assingment, a 5-pound bag of flour will be added to the kitty to donate to the men and women that support our country.

Go to www.howwheatworks.com to start the game. It will take you through the planting, growth and harvest proccesses of wheat production. Along the way, you will learn about the classes of wheat, where they grow best, what they are used for and much, much more. There are also links to many useful resources, like recipes, state wheat commissions- which are ALWAYS helpful:), and national organizations.

I signed up for it today. I completed the planting portion of the activity. It didn’t even feel like I was learning. The graphics are rich and entertaining. Tomorrow, I will be able to learn about how the wheat will grow.. which in reality it does take more than 24 hours to get a large wheat plant!! 

Not only do I feel like I am playing at work, I have a wonderful sense of paying it forward. I know one bag of flower doesn’t put a dent in the need out there, but it sure is one more bag closer to helping.

Log on and help!