These boys have been involved every step of the journey—purchasing the pigs, raising them, transporting them, and now processing them. Their goal was to experience the entire process from start to finish, gaining firsthand knowledge and skills along the way.
Thank you so much to Neil from Range Ward for the engaging presentation this afternoon! Miss Mouly’s Ag class will be working together with Neil on a managed grazing project for our sheep using Range Ward’s generous donation of a Power Shepherd. What an exciting opportunity for hands on learning!
Imagine our surprise and gratitude when they Liboiron family from KD Simmentals stopped at the school with an extremely generous $15,000 donation for our Altario Agriculture Academy!
It's thanks to the generosity and support of families and industries like these that our program continues to grow and flourish!
Our agriculture program had the privilege of hosting international visitors from Denmark this week.
Altario students Nate and Reese did a fantastic job guiding Danish students on a tour of our school, farm, fodder, and hydroponics units.
Spring is here… and so are the fresh cuts! Our sheep are feeling lighter after their annual haircuts.
Our flock is growing! Another batch of chicks has arrived at the farm.
Miss Mouly using our bottle calf in agriculture class to teach the students about different cuts of beef.
Learning all about putting chains on a calf to assist in calving, preg-checking gloves and different methods of tagging & banding.
The Play-School class were the first to meet our newest and cutest farm additions.
Our sweet kune-kune pigs cuddled up and curled into the perfect little heart shape. Clearly, they were showing were showing the students some love for Valentine's Day.
New fencing and new chicken run.
Two more calves born at the school farm: purebred Charolais bull calf and a purebred Simmental heifer calf. Both are part of our embryo transplant project.
Our Charolais embryo implanted in an Angus-Simmental cow was born as a beautiful bull calf this morning!
1. Measure the barn
2. Research floor mat options
3. Buy the product
4. Install the product
Proud of our students who take on the morning farm chores with dedication - no matter the temperature.
Nothing beats a sunny nap! Hakuna & Matata enjoying some warm rays.
Jacob and Wylan making sure our bottle calf had a full belly this morning. Thank you so much to Glen Schuetzle for donating the calf to our Agriculture Program.