The 2-semester CREAM (Cooperative Real Education in Agriculture Management) course is an experiential and capstone experience for students in any major. Students participate in 4 h of classroom activities/week, including a business meeting and committee meetings with students serving on each committee for 6 wk. Weekly 2-h education sessions allow students to choose activities, lectures, and speakers related to running a dairy farm. The hands-on components include managing a herd of 25 dairy cows daily, including milking, feeding, heifer care, sire selection, designing rations, and monitoring the health and reproduction weekly. Students elect class officers to facilitate this flipped course. The president runs the business meetings and leads the students in reviewing committee reports and work, helping lead decisions on educational programming as well as cow management. Two faculty, a grad student, and farm manager advise the class, with veto power if student decisions are not in the best interest of the herd or academic and hands-on skill development. The course has no exams or term papers, but students peer grade each other 2×/semester (60% of grade) and must complete a self-evaluation based on set criteria, which provides feedback on learning outcomes. Students are graded by faculty (40% of grade) on a mini-lecture related to dairy cattle management, and taking on and following through with individual responsibilities. These include chores, maintaining the website, writing for or editing the newsletter, running open houses, and leading tours, planning a dairy-related class trip, planning the annual banquet, or recruiting students for the following year. Students are also encouraged to show initiative in solving issues related to herd management. Half of the students return for 6 wk the next year to train the new students, thereby demonstrating their competency in all areas. Challenges in running the course include making sure students take on responsibility and ownership in their education and the herd, encouraging their initiative and creativity, while ensuring a healthy and productive herd in a public university setting. Working together as a team and communicating all decisions and activities with each other and the farm manager have also been essential to success in the course.