Natural Lands - The Magazine of Natural Lands Fall/Winter 2019, Issue 155 | Page 6

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Just 14 miles northwest of the William
Penn statue atop Philadelphia’s City Hall,
where Chestnut Hill meets suburban
Montgomery County, flocks of Cheviot
sheep, herds of Black Angus cattle, and
striking Belted Galloways graze in an
expanse of lush fields. Daybreak brings
the sounds of bleating sheep and the
productive buzz of honeybees. This is the
475-acre Erdenheim Farm, an island of
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