JAVA CHICKENS back from the brink

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February/March 2002
 
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Defying Chicago's western sprawl is the historically intact 281-acre, the sole survivor of the prairie farms and farmer's inns that supported Chicago's incredible growth in the 1840s. Over 2,300 households from 37 states have contributed to the grassroots effort to preserve this time capsule as a working farm museum. Historic guided tours of the farm can quickly lead to discussions of the current loss of genetic diversity, farmland threatened by development, the rarity of black-soil prairies or economics that prevent starving populations access to the overflowing cornucopia of American farmers. Founded by a few rare and persistent individuals, the project is now acquiring the second generation's 99-acre farm with a $2.5 million fundraising campaign. Adding this farm will make expanded rare breed preservation possible. Garfield is currently home to milking Devon cattle, wrinkled Merino sheep, Pilgrim geese, Narragansett turkeys and two Berkshire hogs. See contact information in the story above.

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  • Marian 8/18/2007 6:59:45 PM

    I have just received four Speckled Suffix chicks and two Silver
    Laced Wyandott chicks for a laying flock. I wanted a Heritage Breed
    to help the breed come back. I was hoping to find a Java, but
    couldn't locate any. so I settled for the Suffix, an English
    chicken from the 1800's, and the Wyandott, which is an early
    American chicken.

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