Take a step back in time. The Kline Creek Farm, in the Timber Ridge Forest Preserve, shows what life on a working farm in the 1890s was like.in DuPage County, Illinois.
Stroll through restored farmstead structures and meet the historically-costumed interpreters operating this living-history farm using the tools and techniques of the past. Activities and events at the farm re-create the seasonal rhythms that have governed farm life for centuries.
Kline Creek Farm presents 19th-century farm activities, such as baking, canning, planting, harvesting, sheep shearing, and ice cutting among other activities.
The farmhouse was the center of domestic activities and today contains original artifacts and reproductions that enhance its homelike atmosphere. Depending on the time of year, staff and volunteers plant heirloom fruits and vegetables in the kitchen garden, tend to the orchard, work in the wagon shed or cure sausages in the smokehouse.
Percheron workhorses help plant and harvest crops of corn, oats, and other small grains; and resident livestock, such as the farm’s Southdown sheep, Shorthorn and Angus cattle, and chickens, occupy the farm’s coop, barn, fold, and pastures.
Beekeeping is also a long-standing tradition at Kline Creek Farm. Since 1984 volunteer beekeepers have managed the farmstead’s apiary by caring for the bees, extracting and processing honey, and leading educational programs and tours that focus on the honeybee’s role as a primary pollinator for two-thirds of all U.S. crops.
Kline Creek Farm
Forest Perserve District of DuPage County
1N600 County Farm Road, West Chicago, Illinois.
Compiled by Neil Gale, Ph.D.
I'll have to visit! Never heard of this place.
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