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Article posted: 10/26/2012 8:58 AM

Moving Picture: Farming that’s old school at Primrose Farm in St. Charles

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Jon Kuester has been a living history farmer at Primrose Farm in St. Charles for four years.

Rick West | Staff Photographer

Jon Kuester grabs a handful of chickens so he can clip their wings. They clip one on each bird to keep them from being able to jump or fly over the fence of their enclosure.

Rick West | Staff Photographer

Living history farmer Jon Kuester takes the horses out to work in the field at Primrose Farm in St. Charles.

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Jon Kuester milks the cows at Primrose Farm in St. Charles. They have three cows producing milk this fall.

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Jon Kuester drags a wheat drill behind an International Harvester McCormick-Deering Farmall at Primrose Farm in St. Charles.

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Jon Kuester introduces a group of kids from Batavia Covenant Preschool to Doc, the horse at Primrose Farm.

Rick West | Staff Photographer

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Jon Kuester, of East Dundee, uses his passion for teaching and history as the living history farmer at Primrose Farm in St. Charles. "American history was always my focus," Kuester said. "But agriculture is the story of American history, so if you're going to understand America you have to understand agriculture. So I started farming again, and it's turned out to be a pretty good thing for me."