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Learn history of bacon at Schaumburg event

Posted October 19, 2016 1:00 am

Submitted by Schaumburg Park District

Visitors to the Schaumburg Park District's Spring Valley Nature Center can learn the history of an American breakfast staple at the upcoming "From Hog House to Smokehouse" event.

This educational program will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, at the nature center's Volkening Heritage Farm, 201 S. Plum Grove Road in Schaumburg.

Attendees will learn to make sausage, smoke hams and see how 1880s farm families used every part of the pigs they raised. Children's activities will be available throughout the day. Admission is $3 per person and $12 per family of six or fewer, with additional members $3 each. Children ages 3 and younger are free.

Parking will be available at Spring Valley's main entrance at 1111 E. Schaumburg Road. A free wagon shuttle will take visitors to the farm.

For more information, call (847) 985-2115 or visit parkfun.com.

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