Drumlin Farm

The Drumlin Farm is 82 acres of marsh, prairie and pine plantation that was donated to the WWOA Foundation in 2006 by Dr. Shirley Peterson. The land is under a conservation easement held by the Geneva Lakes Land Trust. It is located on Cranberry Road just two miles to the south and west of the Seno Woodland Educaiton Center.

Take a virtual tour of Drumlin Farm.

Dr. Peterson, of Barrington, Illinois, is an avid conservationist who has protected and improved the property over the years. She has planted prairie and forest species and protected the marsh areas. She also built a one acre pond and a shallow water pond for wildlife.

There are 30 acres of mixed conifer plantings, 13 acres of prairie, 34 acres of wetland marsh and 3 acres of old crop field. Doctor Peterson planted and maintained the prairie. She planted 26 acres of the red pine, white pine and white spruce plantations in 1963. Then in 1971 she planted an additional 4 acres red pine on the south edge of the property. The oldest stands have been thinned once to improve their growth and will be thinned again in 2007 and 2008. The will will produce some income, but the main purpose is to improve the health and vigor of the remaining trees which will grow to large tree size.

The property has a small streams that wonders down from the northern forty and through the marsh to the south. The stream along with two small ponds on the south forty, will provide expanded opportunities for water activities with students.

The entire property is in a designated primary environmental corridor as identified by the Southeast Regional Planning Commission. Dr. Peterson has a land ethic and philosophy of protecting and preserving the land very similar to that of Dr. Seno. Ironically, the two doctors never met.