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The Country Experience

The Country Experience

A working farm camp for kids to grow through safe, hands-on experiences.

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The Farm

The land – 34 total acres including a large fishing pond, vegetable gardens, flower cutting gardens, vining gardens, herb & snack garden, an orchard growing apples, cherries, grapes, pears, and apricots, rolling pastures for rotational grazing, vast and sloping front lawn for games and stargazing, wooded pasture, 1-mile paved perimeter walking-path 

The facilities – five cozy cabins each sleep 8-12; the renovated century-old Gathering Barn houses the dining room as well as modern showers/bathrooms; a fully-licensed commercial kitchen, along with the campfire ring, wood-fired pizza oven, hay barn, two chicken coops, chicken tractor, pole barn, landscape shed and 6BR farmhouse. 

The animals – we are currently home to a small herd of Dexter cattle, Boer goats, Nubian goats, New Zealand rabbits, two flocks of laying hens, several Kune-Kune Pigs, Miniature Pot-Bellied pigs, and a dozen ducks.  Of course there’s Sammie, our farm dog, and the three barn cats named Batgirl, Wolfie and Beanz.

 

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The Country Experience

312-852-7400

info@thecountryexperience.com

115 Wind Mill Road
Elizabeth, IL 61028

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