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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery

Located right outside of Champaign, in the heartland of Illinois, is a family farm welcoming visitors with open arms and big smiles. Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery owners Wes Jarrell and Leslie Cooperband left behind their life in Madison, Wisconsin …


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Birding Cave Valley

It was a partly sunny morning, when friends with the Shawnee Audubon Chapter went birding at Cave Valley near Pomona, one of the best places to see warblers.     This is an easy trail with great woodland habitat.      Before walking along …