Live Learn and Lead -- a vocational farm in Hampshire -- is doing well after more than three years of serving the public through programming it said transforms the mind, body and spirit.
Didi Dowling, owner and executive director of Live Learn and Lead, said individuals who are helped by her 501 nonprofit organization are taught life skills, such as work ethic, cooking, home and animal care as well as basic mechanics. The organization is based in Hampshire but operates throughout the region, including DeKalb, Boone, Kane, McHenry and Lake counties.
The nonprofit farm hosts traveling sessions to area schools, bringing goats with it for schoolchildren across the region. Other events offer chances to learn how to make goat's milk soap and candles, and partner with 4-H groups across northern Illinois for educational opportunities. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Live Learn and Lead will offer an Easter-themed fundraiser it's calling Goat Grams, in which the farm brings a goat to a donor for a 15-minute visit complete with a goody bag with goat milk soap and lotions.
"So we kept it going, and this Easter it filled up so fast that I still had people asking me for it, but we've got so many to do already we had to shut [goat gram requests] down," Dowling said."So we'll do more Mother's Day and Father's Day, and we've done some for private birthdays ... I just felt like it was another therapeutic aspect for people during the pandemic.
Farrier also said the suburban nature of Kane County means participating children and adults are able to immerse themselves in a different type of environment than they're likely used to. She said that's expected to have mental health benefits.
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