LAKE GIBSON, Fla. — Agriculture teacher Kaley Keen's classroom is a place where city folks and city kids learn about farming and the Future Farmers of America creed.

"We also want. What's the third one?" Keen asks the class. "Career success, premier leadership. What's the third one? Personal growth."

Take a walk outside one of the back doors of Lake Gibson Middle School toward the back of the school property where there are a number of large metal structures - and about 20 pigs.  

They are snorting and rooting and doing, well, what pigs do.

"If I had to stay in the classroom all day I don't think I could teach," says Kaley who started out as a science teachers. "I like being outside with the kids and being around the animals."

This AG class is an elective offering.  

There is never a shortage of students who want to join in. In fact, if you want to own one of these pigs you have to win one of them in a lottery. And then you are responsible for feeding, cleaning, and making sure the animals are healthy.

"He's the smallest pig in here," says one of the 7th grade boys. "We've been doing as much as we can to get him up to weight. We think he’s going to be okay I just have to keep track of him a lot."

You can probably guess there are a lot of other subjects rolled into taking care of an animal. English and math are a real life part of these agriculture lessons.

"Even though you might hate those classes it's very important that you learn those things because in the real world you do have to learn them on a daily basis," says Kaley.

And what these students learn here they are already passing along to others like Lake Gibson class administrator Healther Dunhouser.

"I've learned a tremendous amount from the students coming out and telling me about the pigs and how to raise them and the exercise they get - and the smell.  And the smell.." Dunhouser said. 

That’s the smell of success. Keen’s students are learning that one pig at a time.