Crowder Aggies

One of my favorite things about the farm is when we have people who are truly interested in what we do & want to learn more about us and our farm.

Throughout the years we have gone to preschools, elementary schools & colleges to speak about the farm & our sustainable agriculture practices. I have a standing date at a preschool in Kannapolis every November to talk to the kids about turkeys & show them a PowerPoint presentation of farm animals. We have gone to our kids schools with bees (in an observation hive), our scrapbook with pictures of the animals (no live animals allowed in school) & this year Lee talked to Rosty's class on Earth Day about composting.

We had a group from Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri come to visit the farm a few weeks back. They were a group of Instructors & Students who were on a 2 week Agricultural Travel Seminar. Every year they choose a part of the U.S to travel to and visit various kinds of agriculture. Their majors varied from pre-vet, animal science & ag-business (I'm sure there were other too) . They made stops in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina & North Carolina. They saw wineries, horse farms, a grist mill, Farmer's Markets and more.

We got to spend about 2 hours talking to them and answering questions. Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures and really did not get to spend a lot of time talking to them personally. They were headed to another local farm Mary L Farm, which is an organic dairy in rowan County. We were able to pass out our famous WTF stickers......which I heard ended up on the back of one of the Crowder College vans they were driving & we even had "farm prizes" of some WTF t-shirts.

We hope that the Crowder College group enjoyed visiting with us as much as we enjoyed having them. Like I told them before they left they are always welcome back to visit if they are ever in North Carolina again!