Livestock returning to Chellberg farm |
Livestock returning to Chellberg farm |
May 10 2017, 12:41 PM
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http://chestertontribune.com/Environment/d..._brings_liv.htm
QUOTE 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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