Farm Stand and Farmer's Market

Stop by the LAST regular Saturday Farm Stand TODAY

Oct. 26,  8 am - 2 pm.

 

**Stop by the Farm Stand and pick up some of our newly harvested PORK.
Chops, Ribs, Italian Sausage, Breakfast Links, Shoulder Roasts.....
Our naturally cured and smoked pork will arrive in a week or two. Bacon, Hams and Hocks!

**Also we still have lots of hard-to-find apple varieties grown on our farm!
Sweet - Tart and everywhere in between.


We will be open periodically during the winter. Check for future newsletters.

 

 

 

 

 

ALSO...

 

 

Join us for the LAST OUTDOOR Logan Square Farmer's Market of the season!

This Sunday, Oct. 27 , 10 am - 3 pm.

 

 

 

 

Sign up HERE for your THANKSGIVING SHARE

 

 

 

ALSO...

 

 

Sing up here and get an
Early Bird Discount for our

2014 CSA SHARES.

Vegetable, Fruit, Autumn and Thanksgiving Shares.
All CSA pick up sites are encouraged
to sign up before December 31st
to take advantage of the early bird discount.
On-Farm, Lake Forest, Mt. Prospect and Logan Square.
(Starting in 2014 we will be delivering Autumn and Thanksgiving Shares to off farm locations!!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eat Well, Eat Local and Thank You!

CSA Week 20!

Hurry!

That is the word of the last few days. We need to get a huge amount of crops in before they get frosted and ruined. A frost or two around this time in October is not unusual but to have it dip into the 20's is a bit much. In the last few days we saved radishes, beets, turnips, lemongrass, escarole, arugula, and we covered quite a bit more in hopes of prolonging the harvest period. Here you see the crew saving some of our fantastic, big, thick and tasty spinach. We hope the crowns of these and other spinach plants live through the long winter to grow again and produce some super fantastic spinach in the spring!
You know, vegetable farm work can be extremely satisfying and fulfilling and it can also be very difficult physically and very challenging mentally. It is certainly not for everybody. Every season we see some well meaning folks fall by the wayside and quit or just stop showing up because they can't handle the heat and cold and ticks and rain and dry, cracking hands and frozen fingers and................
It really helps to have a passion for food, local food, growing plants and animals and very hard work.
We are lucky to have had such a passionate crew this season. Every year our farm products get better and our systems get more efficient thanks in large part to our crew.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a FULL SHARES ONLY week...Full Vegetable Shares.

 

Pick up is Thursday, October 24th. 4-7 pm at your respective site.

 

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable Harvest for the LAST WEEK of the

                                                             "Full Summer Journey".....

 

• Mixed Fingerling Potatoes (A mix of French, LaRatte and Amarosa)
  (Warm Fingerling Salad)
• Sweet Potatoes- Covington - orange flesh, orange skin and Japanese - white flesh and ruby skin  (sweet potato and sausage soup!) (How about using TFO Italian Sausage in place of chorizo? Also, don't peel the sweet potatoes cause skin is good!)
• Arugula
• Spinach
• Scarlet Salad Turnips (Salad with radishes and carrots.)
• French Breakfast Radishes (OK, let's pickle radishes and dispel a myth.)
• Orange Carrots
• Escarole (Stew! Substitute Escarole for the chard.) 
• Italian Parsley
• Red Beets with Greens