Kline Creek Farm

Kline Creek Farm, situated within the Timber Ridge Forest Preserve in West Chicago — about 25 miles west of Chicago — maintains a heritage livestock conservation breeding program centered on Heritage Milking Shorthorn cattle, one of the rarer dual-purpose breeds in the country. The program is coordinated by Lisa Carpenter, whose focus on historical authenticity drives the farm's approach to selecting and raising livestock representative of an 1890s DuPage County farm.

The herd traces back to 2018, when the farm acquired its first Heritage Milking Shorthorn, a cow named Liberty, whose old bloodlines were specifically sought out for their genetic rarity. A second full Heritage Shorthorn, Lady, joined the herd in 2019; her pedigree traces entirely to the original 1822 herdbook. The breeding program's aim is conservation first — keeping alive a gene pool that has dwindled as modern agriculture separated beef and dairy lines and incorporated outside genetics into remaining Shorthorn herds.

Alongside the Shorthorn cattle, the farm raises Cotswold sheep and heritage-breed chickens, and works the land with Percheron draft horses using period farming methods. For those looking for heritage Shorthorn cattle in Illinois with dual-purpose traits intact, Kline Creek Farm represents one of the few active conservation programs in the region operating within a living history context.

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Species	Cattle Shorthorn Dual-Purpose Crosses Beef Crosses
Website	www.dupageforest.org/kline-creek-farm
Email	lcarpenter@dupageforest.org
Phone	+1 630-876-5904
Owner	Lisa Carpenter
Location	Wheaton, IL, 60189, United States