Crane Kids Learn About Food Source
October 22, 2020
Farming From the Driver’s Seat
Jonathan Weeks
Crane FFA students held an exposition for the younger members of their student body on Friday.
They brought animals with them, a horse, a few calves, some guinea hens, and a pig. The reason for taking the time to bring all the animals and equipment down to the school playground on Friday was simple. Even in a rural community, many children don’t understand how food gets on the shelves and where it originates. Members of the FFA wanted to share some of this knowledge with the other students. They hoped to help them connect the dinner on their table with the animal husbandry and soil work done by farmers to bring them that dinner.
Some were familiar with farm life, and some weren’t. The students did seem genuinely interested in the bottle-feeding Red Angus and Holstein calves, and also the large John Deere tractor. Everybody wanted to get the bird’s eye view from way up in the driver’s
seat of the tractor."
Crane FFA students held an exposition for the younger members of their student body on Friday.
They brought animals with them, a horse, a few calves, some guinea hens, and a pig. The reason for taking the time to bring all the animals and equipment down to the school playground on Friday was simple. Even in a rural community, many children don’t understand how food gets on the shelves and where it originates. Members of the FFA wanted to share some of this knowledge with the other students. They hoped to help them connect the dinner on their table with the animal husbandry and soil work done by farmers to bring them that dinner.
Some were familiar with farm life, and some weren’t. The students did seem genuinely interested in the bottle-feeding Red Angus and Holstein calves, and also the large John Deere tractor. Everybody wanted to get the bird’s eye view from way up in the driver’s
seat of the tractor."