Carli Carolei loves to milk cows. She spends two afternoons a week, after school, in the barn prepping a herd of 26 cows, moving the milking machine around, collecting and piping the milk to a stainless steel holding tank. She’s a wisp of a girl, barely a teenager, flitting among the restless animals as they lap up their evening meal. Carli helps to turn grass into cheese at Sprout Creek Farm.
A few years before Carli was born, the Society of the Sacred Heart acquired the 200-acre estate of Elise Kinkead on Lauer Road in the town of LaGrange. This was a big step toward the fulfillment of a dream by a group of forward-thinking educators – which included Sprout Creek’s current director, Margo Morris – to build a center for education, farming, community building and spiritual growth.
Today, Sprout Creek Farm is all that and more. Last year 5,000 schoolchildren, many from nearby Noxon Road Elementary School, visited the farm to learn where our food comes from. They got a chance to develop creativity and ingenuity, and to see the value and rewards of real work....
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One of the hardest things about our busy lifestyles is being present to those around us. One reason I’ve taken the pilgrimage to Guatemala the last two years is because as a pilgrim I am able to be present to where I am and I am open to being transformed. In this way being a pilgrim feels like meditation to me. It helps me see God in other people and it helps me see the barriers in my own heart. This leads to compassion and concern for the people of Guatemala rather than complete despair. And it is easy for me to despair.
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