The essay on family farms written by Kathleen Skinner (WP,Dec. 23) was excellent.
My husband and I have often asked children where they thought their food came from, receiving the answer “the grocery store.” It is not taught in schools or in their homes that their food is produced at the farms before it appears in the store.
This is something that parents and schoolteachers should inform the children – where it comes from and who grows it. And without the farmers and ranchers, there would be no food to put in the stores.
Education on where the food supply comes from should be taught in the home and schools, so the children are not left with the notion that they only have to go to the market for their food.
This is what we are trying to teach to the students in Agriculture in the Classroom in British Columbia.
Wanda Richter,
President, British Columbia Women’s Institute,
Clearwater, B.C.
