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Questers Spring Field Trip
Crab Tree Farm
Lake Bluff, Il
May 2013
Crab Tree Farm
• Crab Tree Farm is the only operating farm • located on Lake Michigan in the State of Illinois. • Originally a commercial dairy operation, it has had • three owners in its one-hundred-year history. Over • the last thirty years, the farm buildings have undergone extensive renovation and
now house collections of Arts and Crafts furniture and decorative • arts. The founding of Crab Tree Farm coincided • with the peak of this movement in North America, • at the beginning of the twentieth century. • Crab Tree Farm is also a place where craftsmanship • is valued and practiced. While half of the central • farm building is used for livestock, the other half • is a workshop for woodworkers, ceramics artists, • metalworkers, and sculptors who are given shortand long-term residencies.
http://www.crabtreefarm.org/sites/default/files/documents/CTF_Broch
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