Students learn where milk comes from
23.05.12
As soon as he touched the 10-day-old calf, the Shell Elementary School first-grader pulled his hand back.
Linda and Matt Lussier, of Lussier Dairy, showed off the calf and read a book Wednesday to Shell students in the Extended Day Enrichment Program at the Hawthorne branch library.
Aaron Wockenfuss, a communications manager of Florida Dairy Farmers, said the reading initiative aims to explain to children where their milk comes from.
"They think it comes from the grocery store," he said, adding that most people are now three to four generations removed from farming.
October also marks National School to Farm Month.
Children watched an animated video starring Sunnybell, a fictional calf learning about milk production.
Matt and Linda Lussier own Lussier Dairy in Hawthorne and have worked there since 1993. Linda Lussier read "Allison Investigates: Does Chocolate Milk Come from Brown Cows?" to the children.
Blake Watson, 8, listened intently as Lussier read that milk can be produced with a milking machine or by hand.
Source: Gainesville Sun