The Change to Ag Ed
I have just finished my first semester at Penn State University Park! Actually... my first semester at Penn State... Ever ! Krista and Cows My PSU Ag Ed journey definitely doesn't follow the same milestones that many others do. I was exposed to agriculture at a very young age; my parents met at a local dairy farm just two miles where I currently live. My dad eventually went to college before I was even in the picture, but my mom worked at the dairy until I was 11 or12 years old. My mom and dad separated around 2006, so I had spent a lot of weekends at the dairy feeding and playing calves, hanging out with the big cows, and just roaming around the farm helping how I could. I always looked forward to the weekends that I got to tag along to work with my mom. I thought that the dairy life was awesome: I got to play with cows, so what was not to like? Hanging out at the dairy with Maggie! This picture is from 2010. Maggie was a farm favorite; she had aro...