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The farm includes heirloom crops and cattle breeds similar or identical to those used at the time. The Stephen Sargent home, built on a site 10 miles to the east starting in 1843 and moved to Lincoln Log Cabin in 1987, reflects successful cash crop farming practices of the 1840s, and is meant to contrast with the Lincoln farm.
39°48′10″N 89°06′03″W. / 39.80278°N 89.10083°W / 39.80278; -89.10083. Area. 162 acres (66 ha) Established. 1938. Governing body. Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The Lincoln Trail Homestead State Park and Memorial is a 162-acre (66 ha) state park [1] located on the Sangamon River in Macon County near Harristown ...
IG = Immature Green, GP = Green Pink, BP = Blue Pink, and R = Ripe. Blueberry is a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plants with blue or purple berries. They are classified in the section Cyanococcus within the genus Vaccinium. [ 1 ] Commercial blueberries—both wild (lowbush) and cultivated (highbush)—are all ...
The U-pick blueberry fields will officially open Saturday, June 29. Admission costs $5 per person, cash only; kids 1 and under are free. Eight different varieties of blueberries will be available ...
United States. Surface area. 9.80 acres (3.97 ha) Surface elevation. 253 ft (77 m) Larsen Lake, also known as Blueberry Lake is a small lake inside the city limits of Bellevue, Washington, east of Seattle. A blueberry farm surrounds the lake. Larsen Lake is the headwaters of Kelsey Creek.
Byne Blueberry Farms is an organic blueberry farm in Waynesboro, Georgia.It is one of the earliest and most famous organic farms in the United States. Byne Blueberry Farms was started in 1980, before there was a National Organic Program, when owner Dick Byne became the first commercial blueberry grower in the Central Savannah River Area.
Ribesium nigrum (L.) Medik. The blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum), also known as black currant or cassis, [a] is a deciduous shrub in the family Grossulariaceae grown for its edible berries. It is native to temperate parts of central and northern Europe and northern Asia, where it prefers damp fertile soils. It is widely cultivated both commercially ...
Funk Farms was founded in 1824 by brothers Isaac and Absalom Funk in McLean County, Illinois. From a historical perspective, Abraham Lincoln was one of Funk Farms' first attorneys and later served in the Illinois House of Representatives with Isaac Funk. Isaac was a friend of Lincoln's and an early booster when Lincoln ran for U.S. president.