Farmers and consumers depend on each other. People need food, clothing and shelter. Farmers grow our food, cotton and wool for our clothes and raise timber for our homes.

Farmers need the companies that buy their crops and turn them into nutritious food products or clothing. We all depend on truck drivers and railroad workers to get fresh milk, produce and meat and other food products to our grocery store shelves and clothes to our favorite boutiques.

As the holidays draw near, the Georgia Farm Bureau invites you to celebrate this relationship by observing Farm-City Week November 16-23.

Farm-City Week highlights the relationship between Georgia farmers and their partners in urban areas who prepare, transport, market, retail and serve the food and fiber farmers grow for consumers. Kiwanis International began Farm-City Week in 1955 to increase the understanding of the partnership between urban and rural residents.

Reading books about farming to students, working with teachers to have students send thank you letters to farmers and hosting meals that bring farmers and community leaders together are just a few of the activities county Farm Bureaus will hold in communities across Georgia, as their schedules allow, to mark this annual event.