Oaklee's Guide: Suburban Chicago's Family Resource Guide

www.glenviewparks.org

Visit one of the few remaining dairy farms. See the crops and animals of a 1920’s era homestead. The Heritage Center features interactive stations, milking parlor, greenhouse, authentic 1930’s store, brand new soda fountain and gift shop. Discover the connections between producer and consumer and the past to the present through hands-on activities. Keep up with what’s new by visiting the farm’s blog wagnerfeed.blogspot.com.

Where History Meets Education

Step back in time to farm life from decades past.

Milk a cow

Feed a chicken

Attend a barn dance

Tour a restored farmhouse

Take a hayride in a horse-drawn wagon

Watch corn being planted

Learn about where the food we eat comes from

The Glenview Park District’s 18.6 acre Wagner Farm is one of the last working dairy farms in Cook County and is open to the public for recreation and learning. The farm provides a unique opportunity for families to learn about our farming heritage and experience first hand “the way things used to be.”

In addition to the cows in the pasture, Wagner Farm has chickens, draft horses, and pigs as well as a restored farmhouse and barn and the award-winning Wagner Farm Heritage Center. The Heritage Center contains interactive exhibits where you can learn about farming from the early 20th century through the present, “shop through history” at our 1930’s Grocery Store or purchase a souvenir of your visit from our Museum Store.

If your kids think that milk comes in a carton, corn comes in a can and chicken comes in a cellophane wrapped package, it’s time for a visit to Wagner Farm.

Wagner Farm Heritage center and grounds are open to the public year-round, Monday-Saturday, 9 am-5 pm and Sunday, 9 am-3 pm

Wagner Farm Sweets & Treats

an old-fashioned Soda Fountain located inside the Heritage Center

Cool off this summer with delicious hand-dipped cones, sundaes, floats, shakes made the old-fashioned way by Homer’s Ice Cream.

Opens for the summer Saturday, May 15, 2010

Open Saturdays & Sundays only 12 pm-close (through June 18)

Open every day starting June 19

Monday-Friday, 11 am-5 pm

Saturday, 10 am- 5 pm

Sunday, 11 am-3 pm