The cow, for example, was donated by a farmer during a field trip. The students collect the eggs, date each of them and put the eggs in incubators. Goats must be milked on time, every single day, not when you get around to it. After milking, the students must pasteurize the goat's milk. You can't copy from somebody else.
Kids come in the rooms some days, they just smell like manure.
He's a pretty amazing man. He just excels at getting students to relate to hands-on experience. The purpose is reconnecting the kids' umbilical chord with Mother Earth. There are only four schools like it in the country. The school is named after Catherine Ferguson, Andrews explained, a slave whose freedom was purchased before she founded the first home for unwed mothers in New York.