During the last week of September busloads of young school kids arrive to spend a few hours at Peden Farm on Maple Grove Road, a few miles northwest of Bloomington, for the Children’s Farm Festival.
When suburban farmer Cliff McConville teaches kids about his farm on the Brunner Family Forest Preserve in Carpentersville, where grass-fed cows, pigs and chickens roam freely across 150 acres of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — They’re adorable. They require less food and space. And without much coaxing, they might help cut the grass. Americans are showing more interest in owning miniature cows, goats, ...