text: I love everything about the goat farm the cheeses the dinners the politics and the goats themselves If you are a shorttimer to the Midwest on a temporary academic layover in CU a trip up to Prairie Fruits Farm min north of CU is a great way to learn to love the town before you move on to bigger and different placesnnTheir cheeses are excellent and I have to believe that in years of steady patronage I have tried them all If you see them at the farmers market in Urbana aka Market at the Square they will usually have a selection of to choose from with samples By when I usually roll by their pickens are a lil slimmer but as I said you really cannot go wrong w any of their goat and sheep cheeses nnThey host several biweekly Dinners at the Farm on Sunday evenings and weekly Saturday breakfasts when Market at the Square is offseason These are not cheapwith the dinners at a diner and you BYOBing but they are well worth it The farm employs a gourmet chef who takes local food from their farm Blue Moon Farm Tommanhoussp farm Tiny Greens and other local farmers and crafts tremendous multicourse meals In between courses there is time to tour the farm and its many cool things to check out I will leave them for you to discover but take my word you will not be disappointed nnThe politics of this localorganicsimple foods concept that proprietors Leslie Cooperbrand and Wes Jarrell champion jibes with my personal view of what producers and consumers of food should pursue This is of course just my view but even if it is not yours it should not interfere with you enjoying the everloving shit out of their topnotch noms nnNo trip to the farm is complete without meeting the girls Goats are just awesome Baby goats are even better If that is news to you take the opportunity of a trip to the farm and see if I am wrong BTW just for funsies A compatriot who shall remain nameless asked the vendor whether the goat pictured in a photo made the cheese The response No we make the cheese The goats make the milk