"You have milk that comes from a cow?!!!"

OK, lets give the city kids a break. They really don't teach this stuff in school.
If you grew up around it, you just naturally know about it but otherwise you don't.
We got chickens when I was 8 and I wouldn't eat the brown ones cause "ewww, it has chicken poo stain on it" And i'm ashamed to admit it wasn't too long ago I learned just why some eggs are white and some are brown. Oh, i'm never gonna live that one down.
Jill

My dh gave up eggs for a month when he was first faced with an egg that came out of a chicken he had actually met. He had a vision of "factory farms" as somehow more hygenic. (I fixed that)

the piano teachers daughter (17) came out of the kitchen with a bag of eggs brought by another student last week: girl: "What are these?" mother: "eggs." girl "like from a chicken?" mother "yes." girl "but they're *brown*." mother "yes." girl "so do they come from brown chickens?"

today I'm taking her some green ones.

LOL YOUR MEAN!

I would love to see that happen. Kids are so distant from the things that are needed to sustain their life. How in the world would they survive if tshtf & they had to grow their own food?? They don't even know where it comes from. I for one think it's sad, not funny.

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I can't believe I deleted it!

In my opinion, TS has HTF. Store food will kill you.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

First - a comment was made that today's children are not dumber than children in the past. That is simply not true. Today's children are taught to be dumber and, if any of them start to rise above the crowd, they are either medicated to be "normal" or pressured to do so. Television is being used to train people's minds to accept dumbness as normal, fantasy as real and to shape us all to be gumps and proletariats. My husband has been a science teacher for some 25 years and he is very aware of the decline in mental activity in his students. This trend is likely not as obvious in farm kids, but we do live in a very rural town.

Secondly - to be afraid of natural, raw milk is really to be afraid of the wrong thing. People have lived for many centuries before pasteurized milk and I dare say that most of them did just fine. Sure, there is a small risk, however do some research and you will see that raw milk is a living food, full of nutrients that pasteurized and homogenized milk simply doesn't have. Overall I am sure it is a lot healthier for you than the over processed stuff you get in stores. Our lack of "real" food is killing us. Now, if milk is going to be sold in huge commercial batches, yes, it probably needs to be treated, but fresh local milk from a well cared for cow is so much healthier and better for us than store bought!

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We sell brown eggs. A lady stopped to buy some because she "loves fresh eggs". As I was talking with her, one of our chickens wondered up to us. The woman stepped back and said "Oh, you have chickens?"

I was speechless.

OMG this thread is so true! I never grew up with this farm stuff - and so I am amazed everyday.... I didn't know there were green eggs (and of course I had to have the chickens that lay them)... the funniest thing was when my husband brough eggs to a co-worker and she thought I dyed them all!!!

I'm still waiting to try goat's milk!!

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Chicama Run

That's pretty funny.

Did you manage to keep a straight face?

LOL! I have not heard the term "moo juice" since I was in High School. We also used to call eggs "cackle berries".

I was raised in the "burbs" but was taught at an early age where milk,eggs etc. came from. When I was about 7 my Nanaw,mother and aunts took me and my cousins to a local dairy. There were glass pipes running across the salesroom,so you could see the milk being transferred from the pasturizing process to the bottling area. However,I thought to myself that it was neat how they got the milk straight from the cows and right into the bottle.

/ty GF for turning me on to Homesteading Today
//have been warned about trolls
///got my troll armour on
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I'm reading Barbra Kingsolver's book "Small Wonders" right now and she relates a similar incident. Her husband is teaching kids about food and he pulls a carrot out of the ground to the horror of the kids watching. They had NO idea carrots grew in the dirt. He then asks what else they think grows underground. The kids brainstorm and come up with...SPAGHETTI!

We live in a rural area but my children go to a private school in the city. It is on the outskirts of the city and a lot of the kids that go there are from more rural areas. Several have grandparents that have farms or who 'live in the country'.

Anyway, Last spring when we hatched some chicks we took them to the school for 'show and tell'. We ended up taking them to all the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classes. Several kids had seen chicks before but most were absolutely amazed. They asked alot of great questions. It was really alot of fun.

I've thought about offering to let them have a field trip here in the spring and show them how to milk goats (new babies will be here by then), let them gather eggs and tour the garden. Too bad alot of the vegetables won't be ready by then because I think it would be really cool to serve them lunch from the garden. Maybe we could have salad. lol.

Beth

I bring chicks to school every year. First baby chickens then baby turkeys.
They love it. But here in Maine it is not a strange thing to them.
But I was just remembering reading this thread........according to some people the only people that matter are the super highly educated ones so if the SHTF we will all be saved by the doctorates? They will create food? I mean only they matter......will only they be left?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

You would think so, wouldn't you? We give tours at our place. One kid from Chicago had no idea what kind of animal our Jersey was.

One of our daughter's teen friends asked why we had a cow. When DD told her 'for milk, butter and cheese' the teen replied, "You can make that from a cow. DD explained that the cow gave milk and we made butter & cheese. The teen (from a small, rural town) did NOT know that the milk in the store came from cows.

Plenty of kids have told us that 'their eggs' doesn't come from the hind end of a chicken.

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Not to mention sugar, salt and MSG.

One of the kids on my bus (city kids) had an insightful comment when I told her that we had goats for milk and cheese, and hens for eggs - "so that means you don't have to go to the store for all that stuff. Cool."

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Half Caper Farm - breeding Saanens, Boers and Nigerian Dwarfs

When I was in the break room at work one day a young woman in her early twenties asked me "You garden a lot right?"

I replied "Yes"

She asked, "What are pickles made of?"

(okay so I figured that if she is twenty,lives in a rural area and after twenty some odd years of life has no idea what a pickle is before it is a pickle then well...)

I looked her straight in the eye and with a straight face,calmly explained with the voice of "experience" that

Pickles grow on pickle bushes. The bushes grow to about six feet tall and there are different types of pickle bushes i.e. sweet pickle bushes,dill pickle bushes,bread and butter pickle bushes.

I told her that to make pickles,you pick them off the bush,put them in a jar and pour vinegar over them.

Okay so maybe it was a little mean,but I was working retail and had had enough of young adults who seemed to think that food came from McDonalds.

She left the breakroom certain that she knew it all now and I had to admire the older women in the room that were able to refrain from bursting into laughter until she left the room.

Just heard that Alaska 4H is going into more technology. That has to mean some changes away from agriculture.

I am sorry but this is just not true. One of the problems with Cannibus are all of the folks whom disagree with its use make up stories about its ill effects...
I am a graduate in botany whom also studied botanical psycoapharmacology in school (the effects of herbs and plants on the hum mind and body). We studied cannibus as well as many other natural remedies used in todays socities and found MANY mor harmful herbs that are avail on open market. One of them being Valarian root....commonly used as an herbal sleep aid, after long term use can cause spaces between the synapse of the brain causing confusion siumliar to that found in advanced alzheimers....
But cannibus was found mostly only to lower sperm count in males (in large doses), other than that after the effects wear off no residual psyciological effects were found, all were helpful to patients.

What I do agree with is that todays generation of youth are mostly CLUELESS as to where the fgood they eat and milk they frink comes from it is a sad state of affairs indeed.
I spent about 7 years of my life smack dab in the middle of a VERY large city whilst in college and saw the ignorance first hand.... sad indeed!!
Graeat thread, awesome forums!!!
bLIppY

Sorry Blippy, but I have to ask; did you type this quickly, or are you still studying Cannibis.... the typos are hilarious!!