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City by the Lake.org, The Voice of Michigan City, Indiana _ City Talk _ Livestock returning to Chellberg farm

Posted by: Southsider2k12 May 10 2017, 12:41 PM

http://chestertontribune.com/Environment/dunes_learning_center_brings_liv.htm

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By KEVIN NEVERS

For some oohing and ahhing--and mooing and baaing--take the kids to the Chellberg Farm site at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

Because, after a hiatus of eight years, livestock has returned to Chellberg Farm.

Over the weekend a 900-pound steer named Number 1, a Nubian billygoat named Diane, and three ducks--who may or may not have been christened--were delivered to Chellberg, where they’ll remain on loan until October.

There they’ve joined the chickens which the Dunes Learning Center (DLC) re-introduced to the farm in 2016, under a program spearheaded by DLC Executive Director Geof Benson and enthusiastically supported by National Lakeshore Superintendent Paul Labovitz.

The idea: to give urban and suburban kids--whose only connection to the food they eat may be the occasional trip to the Strack--a more immediate understanding of animal husbandry and agriculture, as well as of the ecology and environmental implications of farming.

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