I'm so impressed with this effort

[Bill in Oregon]

These folks are doing a wonderful service for the kids lucky enough to have their "farm camp" experience!

https://www.thefp.com/p/farm-camp-upsta ... irect=true

[1894cfan]

Yup, that'll work! Teach the other 75% where their food comes from, and that burger didn't grow on a tree!!

[Bill in Oregon]

I like that it is not just a lesson about the food supply, but also about honest, physical labor. Mucking out a horse stall is a wonderful exercise for both body and mind.

[AJMD429]

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That reminds me of Ted Nugent's Kamp for Kids - https://www.tednugent.com/about/kamp-for-kids/

The other day I was talking to a new patient. Her husband has been my patient for a long time and although he didn't grow up on a farm at one point he lived next door to us and does have a feel for the small farm life as far as dealing with sick animals and predators and stuff. One day he came over to the house and we had a sick baby goat in the living room we were giving 'IV' fluids (really SQ) so there was an area blocked off with a goat-poop-covered tarp on the floor and scrap wood walls. That's Real Farm Life for sure.

He was with her and I was talking to him about how our chicken population decreased from 22 to 11 in two weeks due to owls and raccoons, after a bobcat killed the rooster, since he is no longer to herd them into the chicken coop at night. I mentioned that we caught three raccoons in our trap so hopefully we won't lose all the chickens, and she asked "what do you do with them?" Assuming she might be a 'rural' person like him I said "just a 22 to the back of the head then we let the coyotes and vultures have them", forgetting that 'city kids' often are easily shocked.

She didn't act shocked, and he does deer hunt, but she's female, and raccoons are 'cute' (unless you're a sleeping hen awakening to one biting your neck and starting to eat you alive as soon as you're incapacitated). Hopefully I didn't traumatize her...

[gamekeeper]

I bet if you showed snowflakes around the farm there would be a lot more vegans about... Kids need to experience real life from as early as possible.

[GunnyMack]

It all stems from the parents, sadly teachers do them no justice either. They should be taken to farms, encouraged to ask questions and get hands on.
It's so bad that a neighbor buddy's grandson need to camp outside to get a scouting badge. Set tent up in backyard.Middle of the night the kid is crying his eyes out. When asked why he said I have to P but the house is locked! My buddy said go find a tree! Mom won't let me P outside! So as my buddy gets out of the tent to unlock the house, trips on a guy rope for the tent and falls landing on the shoulder he had fixed 3 months prior.
My motto is IF YOU STAND TO P THE WORLD IS YOUR URINAL

[jeepnik]

I guess I'm that second generation away, or maybe even third these days. Still many of the kids I grew up with were never exposed to where their food came from. They had a pretty good idea, but no hands on experience.

My kids didn't have the advantages of living around farms and dairies like I did. But I made darned sure they learned how to grow things. And through hunting and fishing they understood meat was once alive and when alive was to be respected. But darn it tasted goo once it was cooked up.

I have a niece and nephew that didn't have parents that taught them these things. Good kids and now good adults and parents. But, they just aren't really prepared for anything outside of an occasional "camping" trip in a motorhome parked in a KOA (is that still around) campground.