Episode 3 is a very personal conversation with an educational innovator, Michaela Ryan. For almost 20 years, Micaela has operated a farm school for kids ages 5 - 18, called New Village Farm in Shelburne, VT Many children, including a young woman named Resika, (who introduced us to Michaela) grew up farming at New Village. For them it’s a completely normal part of their lives.. Beginning with rabbits and chickens, children learn not only animal husbandry skills, but deep empathy, front-lines life and death realities, and the joy of giving care. As early learners grow, they move into the feeding, moving, milking and understanding of goats and their baby kids, Eventually these children, fully capable and mindful of their own safety, graduate to caring for enormous dairy cows, as well as how responsibly and successfully to engage these animals, who are over 10 times their size! Michaela talks us through the incredible layers and dimensions of learning in this profound environment, and its impact on human development, including her own very personal story.