This story reminded me why I still love Indiana, even with all of it’s faults.How many places can you go where, just 30 minutes outside the state capital, you can visit the FFA pumpkin patch? (What’s the FFA you ask? Future Farmers of America, of course.)
How many public school systems still have agriculture teachers?
How many high schoolers use their savings to buy rabbits, calves, pigs & goats? And then allow them to be part of a petting zoo for little ones?
How many times do you get to hear a grown man say “I’d like them to do it forever and ever?”
I know, I know. It’s all kind of hokey. But give me hokey any day if it means reminders about what really matters: working together, working hard, and enjoying what you do.
Hokey, but refreshing.
How many public school systems still have agriculture teachers?
How many high schoolers use their savings to buy rabbits, calves, pigs & goats? And then allow them to be part of a petting zoo for little ones?
How many times do you get to hear a grown man say “I’d like them to do it forever and ever?”
I know, I know. It’s all kind of hokey. But give me hokey any day if it means reminders about what really matters: working together, working hard, and enjoying what you do.
Hokey, but refreshing.
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