How much do goats eat? Will those chickens lay eggs? What’s growing in the garden beds? What is the difference between hay and straw? If you enjoy visiting the Alltech Farm Animal Experience and learning about agriculture, The Little Farm Hand Program is for you! Would you like to know where we keep our feed
Today, most Americans are three generations removed from the farm. While we produce most of our food on farms of one type or another, many consumers lack farm experience. Without that, they will also lack the understanding of how this happens. If you ask them, most children will say that their food comes from a
Has your child ever watered plants in the gardens or talked to animals in the Farmyard? Perhaps they have visited the Ag and Nature Lab to care for cows in the dairy barn, release a monarch, or build like a beaver? Experiences like these help cultivate empathy, an important skill that requires children to imagine