The Salt Lake Tribune recently posted an article about a closed down dairy that will soon be used for agriculture education. Read this excerpt for this positive agriculture story!

You can read about farrowing a sow all day long. But the best way to learn how to deliver a litter of pigs is, well, to deliver a litter of pigs. So says Bill Carpenter, an agriculture teacher for Granite School District. The district plans to team up with Taylorsville to expand its hands-on livestock training program.

On Wednesday, the City Council is scheduled to vote on whether to allow the Granite Technical Institute to open a classroom at the former Jones Dairy Farm, now home to the Taylorsville-Bennion Heritage Center, 1488 W. 4800 South. Approval appeared likely.

“It enhances our mission to have a few, selected animals there,” said City Manager John Inch Morgan.

It also means that milk cows could return to the 70-year-old family dairy, which closed in 2000. Carpenter expects beef cattle, milk goats, sheep and hogs to fill the barn, which already houses some chickens and goats. Classes would take place in the old Jones Dairy Store, which is next to the two-story Victorian house that now serves as a Taylorsville history museum.

*Photo courtesy of The Salt Lake Tribune.