It’s okay for kids not to know a sheep from a goat, a carrot from a parsnip or that cows really give milk. That’s the philosophy of Airfield Estate, a 38-acre farm just outside central Dublin, Ireland. In fact, teaching kids and others about the realities of agriculture and livestock.
Source: National Geographic, September 5, 2016.
Our mission is to inspire people to refresh their connection with food and the land it comes from,” Grainne Kelliher, Airfield’s CEO, tells me when she meets me near the front gate, close to another sign that announces: 10 a.m., Egg collection. “There is nothing else in Ireland like this place, and to have a working farm so close to the city we think may be unique in the world.”
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