I guess I became a Agriculture Agvocate in Kindergarden, as I was fortunate to have my parents bring in baby lambs to our classroom the first few years of school. Even at that time I was asked all kinds of questions like:
What do lambs eat? How old are they? Do they miss their mom? Where's their Dad?
We also had classroom trips to the farm many different years that I was in Elementary school. I was always eager to show off my new spring babies, the lambs, baby chicks, baby calves, and of course the hidden batches of kittens. On one of our small city family visits, a young cousin, Nicole, who was about 6 at the time got the opportunity to watch a calf be born. After the birth, everyone was talking about how cute the baby was and how amazing it was for the kids from the city to witness such a miracle. Nicole was quite concerned and was quite upset and asked "Don't you think that someone should maybe go and tell the dad that his wife just had a baby?" Well yes us farm folk take this type of thing for granted, and my dad was very careful to let her know that he would go and find him.
Funny how some of these stories help bring things into perspective and we learn that we really need to get out there and help people to understand the type of life it is to live on a farm. What we take for granted, understanding how life is created, and the lifecycle of an animal, to how much of farmland plays into everyones everyday life.
So its back to Elementary school I go - watch for my blogs on "In the Classroom"
~Carling
~Carling
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