MURFREESBORO, Tenn. —
Mitchell-Neilson Elementary School third-grader Taylor Vandenburgh did what many of her peers chose not to do: She
scooped up some silage used to feed MTSU
dairy cows, just to obtain a whiff of it.
Other students petted cows and calves, drank chocolate milk
from the cows, made a craft out of dried beans and yarn and learned about
tractors, honey from bees and other aspects of the working farm in Lascassas,
Tennessee.
To view video from the event, visit https://youtu.be/vLom-CkECsw.
About 1,300 Murfreesboro
City Schools’ third-graders visited the university’s Experiential Learning and Research Center — the farm and dairy —
Wednesday (May 17) as part of the third “Farm2School”
field trip in as many years.
The farm experience is part of a partnership between
Murfreesboro City Schools and MTSU.
In addition to Mitchell-Neilson, other schools participating
on the warm and breezy day included Black
Fox, Bradley Academy, Cason Lane Academy, Discovery School, Erma Siegel, Hobgood, John Pittard, Northfield, Overall Creek,
Reeves-Rogers and Scales.
Mitchell-Neilson’s Jasmine
Dykes, 9, enjoyed “making butter and petting the cows.” After drinking
chocolate milk, she said, “it was good.” The best part of making butter for her
was that “I got to shake it.”
A number of MTSU and City Schools’ staff coordinated the
four-hour event. Various MTSU students and staff shared about the dairy, garden
and life on a farm.
Stations the children visited included tractor safety,
educational craft, garden area pig display, honey bees, making butter and
chocolate milk.
MTSU and Murfreesboro City Schools have collaborated to
bring more than 35,000 students for five Education
Days at MTSU women’s basketball games and teamed for many student-teaching
events and educational and academic endeavors through the years.
Murfreesboro City Schools participates in the national
Farm2School Network program.
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