Many children never get to see a cow up close. But in the heartland, school children can tour the 10,300 acre Buck Island Ranch on a bit-wheeled swamp buggy and see more than 3,000 cows.
Besides cows, kids will learn about how sold is grown and cut for road right-of-ways and how palm trees are raised for landscaping. They also learn about the "boots" or wide spikes that fall off the young cabbage palms as they grow - adn how you can eat the fruit of the palm,, called wamp cabbage.
The Lake Wales ridge, 200 feet above seas level, is visible to the west of the ranch. Kids learn just what that is and how it was here before florida.
And if they're lucky, the may also see an alligator sunning itself on the banks of the harney Pond Canal that catches the overflow from Lake Istokpoga.
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