24 Tasks, 1 Bingo Card: County Farm Challenge Ends in November
Montgomery County's Food Policy Council is running Agventure, a bingo-style game that awards prizes for visiting local farms, farmers markets and orchards.
By Anthony Foster ·
The Montgomery County Food Policy Council wants residents on local farms before November ends.
Agventure, the council's bingo-style challenge, launched this year as a way to connect residents with the county's farming community. The card lists 24 farm-related activities, plus one free space. Activities include visiting farms, stopping at farmers markets, picking produce and trying farm-to-table meals. The council describes the goal as promoting awareness of and engagement with farming in the county.
The rules are simple: complete a row, column or diagonal of five activities and a prize is available. The prize is a hat or a water bottle. Participants who finish two or more rows, columns or diagonals go into a raffle for a grand prize of local farm goods. Pictures of completed activities can be posted on social media with #montcoagventure or sent as a direct message to @HHSMontcoPA. The account is run by the county's Health and Human Services department, which also posts for Facebook, Instagram and X. The department's LinkedIn page is listed as Montgomery County, PA Department of Health and Human Services.
Only visits to farms inside Montgomery County count toward the card. Visits to farms elsewhere do not qualify. Questions go to oph.agventure@montgomerycountypa.gov, a mailbox monitored by Food Policy Council members.
Prizes ship after the Agventure ends in November. The challenge has been promoted through social posts tied to the seasons, including a post about strawberry season that told readers to find a farmers market, pick strawberries and check the activity off the bingo card. Another post pointed residents to the Field to Family Map, which lists products and activities area farms offer. County posts use #MontcoAgventure, #HHSMontcoPA and #MontcoPA.
The council's sample outreach material describes Agventure as a game that helps residents explore county farms, support producers and win prizes. The county's Food Policy Council launched the initiative.
The bingo card and further details are available through the county's health and human services channels. Agventure closes in November, and prizes are mailed afterward.
