(PHOTOS) Eisenhower Students Come Nose to Nose With Farm Animals

Eisenhower Elementary School students got a little taste of the country Friday when students from Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School students brought farm animals to Hopkins.

The pigs, chickens, rabbit, goat, sheep and cow greeted students just outside the school as part of a “Bring the Farm to School” experience to teach the elementary schoolers where food and textiles come from.

“So many times these kids they go to the refrigerator and they don’t ever think about, ‘Here’s my milk. Where’d they get it from?’” said Jim Weninger, HLWWHS’s FFA advisor and agriculture education instructor.

The high school students designed the program themselves and brought animals from local farms. They talked to the Eisenhower students about the animals, invited them to pet the animals and showed off milking equipment. There was even a display where students could touch and learn about different Minnesota grains.

“It’s just a really great experience for us to learn what they know what we have to teach them,” said Senior Katie Hirsch, who shared her experience living on a dairy farm with 23 cows.

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