Mobile Dairy Classroom: Eighty Years and Counting

by Dairy Council of California | about the author 29. October 2010 13:19

In the 1930s a dairyman named Clarence Michel, of Edgemar Farms, teamed with Dairy Council of California to create the free Mobile Dairy Classroom. The idea: Michel would travel weekly to Los Angeles-area schools in a truck built to accommodate a live cow. The goal: to teach children how milk and dairy foods were produced and to get students up close and personal with local agricultural ambassadors.

Due to the vast response from schools, the program expanded into a statewide teaching curriculum.

Eighty years later and counting, six Mobile Dairy Classroom units visit schools throughout California, reaching more than 300,000 elementary school students each year.

Students learn:

The basic anatomy of a cow, the food it eats to stay healthy and the milking process
Agriculture’s role in supplying the food children enjoy
Milk and dairy foods’ unique contributions to a healthy diet

This outdoor assembly is free throughout certain areas of California. To see if your school is eligible, please fill out this form.

Dairy Council of California