Sowing the seeds of knowledge
CHARLES LEFEBVRE
Kindergarten student Canyon Baxter collects eggs, with the help of Nichole Neubauer, during a class trip with Medicine Hat Christian School to Neubauer Farms.
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ichole Neubauer says agriculture has been a part of her life as long as she can remember.
One of her earliest memories as a little girl on her family's farm was playing with her two friends on a big stack of broken down straw.
“One thing that was really vivid was gathering the straw in an ice cream pail and pretending we were making spaghetti and serving our guests... I guess a combination of a lot of creativity and imagination and a lot fewer distractions allowed for all that creativity to flow.”
Neubauer has always lived on a farm. When she married her husband Mark in 1996, they settled on a farm just outside the city limits. Besides raising cattle and other livestock, the duo are raising their two children, son Logan, 11, and daughter Evie, nine, who are becoming an integral part of the family farm. Both children are involved in 4H, learning how to raise a steer for
projects, and Evie has taken on selling the eggs from the chickens on the farm and cleaning out the coop.
“I knew all along that was what I wanted with my life,” she said. “I wanted to be in agriculture and have children one day that I could gift those same wonderful experiences I had growing up.”
It isn't just her own children Neubauer has been gifting the experiences of farming to. For 10 years, Neubauer Farms has been hosting a school program called Growing Minds.
The goal of the program is to give children, primarily from the city, an appreciation for agriculture and let them experience daily life on a farm.
“It's at the root of what we do," she said. "We really want children, who may be more disconnected from agriculture, to come out and have some hands-on, authentic experiences, and draw some connections to where their food comes from.”
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During the Growing Minds sessions in the spring, students learn about seeding, the life cycle of an animal and about planting crops. In the fall, a big hit for the farm has been their pumpkin patch tour, along with a focus on the harvest.
Through a community-supported agriculture program, the farm is able to have a community
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