Mobile dairy classroom visits local schools

Through the BC Dairy Association a mobile dairy classroom complete with cow and calf is touring the province.

John Te Brinke bottle feeds a young calf with its mother's milk in front of a students at Upper Bench Elementary School recently. The calf and cow are part of a mobile dairy classroom experience put on by the BC Dairy Association. As part of the program which travels throughout the province kids learn where milk comes from and how it gets to the table.

John Te Brinke bottle feeds a young calf with its mother's milk in front of a students at Upper Bench Elementary School recently. The calf and cow are part of a mobile dairy classroom experience put on by the BC Dairy Association. As part of the program which travels throughout the province kids learn where milk comes from and how it gets to the table.

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