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Illinois' Pizza Farm

When you grab a slice on the run, do you even stop to think about where the ingredients came from? We doubt it, you're prob more concerned with catching the grease. A business team in IL actually stopped to think about it.

A retired insurance agent and his partner have opened a farm and museum that's divided up into 'slices' over half an acre. Each slice of land represents and grows something that appears on a pizza, from herbs to tomatos to basil. There's also a goat for milk and a cow and pigs for meatier toppings.

Tours are April through Oct. and take visitors through each 'slice' where they then get free pizza afterwards in the lodge. The famers hope it raises interest in organic growing.

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