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Jubilee Farm: A Place For 'Spirituality & Ecology'

Right outside of Springfield, in New Berlin, is a rolling landscape of over 100 acres of farmland. The llamas and alpacas are some of the first things you'll see to know you've arrived at Jubilee Farm

Over the past couple decades it's become sort of convent - where Catholic Dominican Sisters cultivate the land - and spirituality. Come along as we visit the grounds and the people who call it home:
 
CLICK HERE to learn more about Jubilee Farm, and CLICK HERE to check out the Heartland podcast, which this story was part of.

Rachel Otwell of the Illinois Times is a former NPR Illinois reporter.
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