“Where does your food come from?” “Does chocolate milk come from brown cows?” The answers to these questions are becoming more and more difficult for the everyday citizen to answer, and there is becoming a greater need for young students to be educated in the field of agriculture. Throughout the semester, research will be conducted through work with the UNH Cooperative Extension 4-H Program and local after school programs. The goals of this research are to identify what children already know about agriculture, specifically the dairy industry, and to investigate how teachers integrate agricultural education in an after school program. Findings from this research will highlight the accuracy and gaps of students’ knowledge of agriculture and discuss ways for teachers in the State of New Hampshire to connect agriculture to their current language arts, science, and math curriculum.
