Yes indeed - very similar experience - farms are one of the best education’s we can experience. Sadly, farming is foreign to today’s generation...scary actually.
I’d had enough cooking and sewing at home so was the first girl who demanded to take Ag instead of Home Ec at my HS. Sadly, the male Ag teachers thought it unseemly for a girl to weld on the project trailer but I was worthy enough to teach the boys how to weld.
Today’s Home Ec is called life skills. Snort, little to no cooking or sewing or such. They usually do nothing all year outside a little team trust catching your classmate as he falls. I doubt if any of the kitchen stations here have been touch in 20 years aside from the teacher warming her microwave lunch. My spec ed students were taught to thread a needle and cook their own dinners on the stove so were better prepared. Wish there had been a building trades for them.
Note who is doing the farm labor.
They and their kids are getting the ‘education’ you and I got.
Their generation is on the track to be what ours was.