It’s one thing to take a bull by the horns. Teaching someone else to do it is another thing entirely – but that’s what one Clarksville agriculture teacher built a farm to do.
Over multiple school years, Northwest High School teacher Megan Clegg developed an unused outdoor classroom space into a small livestock operation with lambs, steer, rabbits and bees on site, allowing students to get their hands dirty and experience a working farm.
Clegg, who also advises the school’s chapter of FFA, has been working toward creating this unique learning opportunity since her first year in the classroom. She said the students loved animals, but they didn’t understand what went into production agriculture – raising animals and crops to provide products for places like farmers’ markets and grocery stores…