Kline Creek Farm

Kline Creek Farm is an 1890s living history farm outside of Chicago. Our site includes an original farmhouse and farm buildings sitting on the farm’s original 200 acres. We farm oats, corn, and hay with our Percheron draft horses and raise Heritage Shorthorn cattle and Cotswold sheep. We also have a flock of heritage breed chickens and seasonally keep Berkshire hogs on the farm. We got our first Cotswolds in 2019 and plan to maintain a flock of about 15-20 ewes. Sheep shearing and lambing are two of our most popular programs on the farm. We shear our sheep using blade shears—the technology that would have been most prevalent on farms of that period. Our goal is to educate the public about our agricultural heritage and preserve the old ways of doing things. By raising heritage livestock breeds, we are able to present the types of animals you would have seen on an 1890s farm in northern Illinois while also preserving those breeds.