Britton's Blueprint

If you follow my blog, you already know that I love cows. What a lot of you don't know is how my love for cattle inspired me to be a special education teacher. When I was about 13 years old my dad found a movie that I might be interested in. The movie was about cattle and how a lady with autism actually created a more efficient and much more effective cattle chute that is very popular in the industry today. This amazing women also helped to create a more humane system for slaughtering livestock animals.The lady: Temple Grandin, became a huge inspiration for me. It is super cool to think that someone with Autism (a disability) has been able to do change, and invent so many things. Below you will be able to see the chute system that Temple Grandin created. There was another connection that I was able to make with Temple, she is a women in agriculture. I know her struggles to be able to do what she has done. If you are a women in agriculture you have to impress the men to be able to b

I grew up being my grandfathers helper. It always seemed that I would end up at the barn with him no matter how many times my mom told me no. Mom always said how dangerous the farm was for a "little four year old girl". Meanwhile both gram and pap would reply back with "what your mom doesn't know wont hurt her". At the age of four, the passion for agriculture began to grow inside me while I would sit on a bucket and watch the feed come down the silo and then onto the auger where the cows would come to eat. It was a few years later that I knew that I loved this farm life, and I wanted to do more. I have been able to participate in the daily farm life, and have been driving tractors since the age of 11. Since then I have gained more and more knowledge and have been able to do more and more on the farm. Fast forward to today, I still love the farm that inspired me to be the person I am. Many of you knew that I lived on a farm, but what kind of farm you might ask.