Did you know that cows can recognize their names, have a memory of about three years, and can smell up to six miles away? These are just a few of the facts that Malad Elementary students learned about cows while visiting Crazy Cow farm adventure this past week.

On Wednesdays and Thursday over 175 first, second, and third grade students visited the Waldron Family farm sponsored by Northwestern Mutual – Tooke and Associates for a fun, educational, and engaging farm adventure.  Much of the farm adventures focused learning about many different farm animals which included visiting all the farm babies - bunnies, puppies, lambs, colt, calves, goats, and the newly hatched chicks. Students also participated in cleaning, carding and spinning wool, making rope, churning butter, slopping the hogs, riding a horse, playing barn yard laser tag in the “machinery boneyard” and trying out the new pedal carts that were recently added to the farm. School tours are not something new to the Waldron Family.  In fact, tours are something that Luke and Shayna Waldron and their family have enjoyed doing off and on for the past 20 years. After recently purchasing a new cow this spring which was supposed to be nice and friendly but instead turned out to be absolutely crazy, Luke says the new name Crazy Cow stuck. 

Through the years, people have often stopped by the Waldron farm because of all their cool animals and outbuildings and wanted to experience something fun. But as Luke states, it was usually just work. There was (and still is) much work to be done on the farm, including caring for the animals, irrigating, fixing fence, putting up hay, and the list goes on.  After putting in so much work, Waldron decided it was important to let people also experience the fun aspects of farming as well. 

Much of what has inspired the new adventures on the Waldron Family farm are from experiences Luke had as a child growing up on his family farm in Samaria. “I loved the adventure and exploration on our farm growing up, there were old farm buildings and lots of farm machinery to play in and explore, haystacks to make forts in, and many farm animals and their babies to care for.”  For Waldron, growing up on the family farm was a lot of fun and he wants to be able to allow others to have fun experiences on his farm today. “Having the Malad Elementary students join us on the farm this week was a blast and we invite others to come as well,”  Waldron said. Reservations are required and can be made by calling Luke directly at 208-380-3522.