Elawa Farm Announces 2 New Photo Classes

A perfect day for Elawa Farm’s Autumn Garden Market

Elawa Farm  has added two photo classes to its expanding class offerings. In planning the classes, we decided that Getting to Know Your Camera will be a great way to launch the photography program and will also serve as a “warm-up act” for the Photographing Early Summer  class which follows it.

Getting to Know Your Camera

3 Fridays, May 3-10-17    9 — 12 Noon

Photographing Early Summer at Elawa Farm Garden  

4 Fridays May 31, June 7-14-21  9 –12 Noon

About Elawa Farm

This scenic location may be new to many of you, so here’s some info about it. While not difficult to find, it is easy to miss the (very) small sign on the west side of Waukegan Road just north of Route 60.  Turn west at the sign (Middlefork Rd.), pass private homes along the way, and find Elawa tucked in to the west.

Elawa Farm was built in 1917, one of the Armour estates with buildings designed in the Georgian Colonial Revival style by David Adler and an Alfred Hopkins-designed farm complex. The Farm’s scenic 16 acres connect with over 4 miles of Lake County Forest Preserve trails and 570 acres of open prairie. The trails lead through the Middlefork Savanna, creating what the Nature Conservancy identifies as “…one of the finest examples  of a black soil, tall grass prairie in the United States…”