Mark your calendars!

Our 2012 CSA season begins Thursday, June 14th!

All members are welcomed to start picking up their shares from 4pm to 7pm.

Members who will be picking up on the farm need to bring their own bag, basket, box, we've even seen laundry baskets, to carry their produce home. All other members will have their boxes prepacked in wax boxes. We do reuse these wax boxes! We ask that you please keep them as clean as possible and return them to your pick up location, unfolded, the following week.

For our members that are picking up on the farm you'll notice that there will be an area designated for CSA and  separate area for our farm stand of produce for sale to everyone. We will have a limited amount of eggs available as we are waiting for our young hens to start laying. A few pullet eggs have started a week ago so production should be on it's way soon!

For our members that are picking up at Lake Forest and Logan Square eggs will be available for purchase. These will also be limited quantity!

Future newsletters will be sent out by Wednesday morning. If for some reason we were unable to send it out for Wednesday morning you will receive one by Thursday. 

If you live around the farm you've noticed lots of changes to the fields and our farmers hard at work.

Here are a few pictures with what's been going on here!

Our farm crew: Duncan, Michelle, Keegan (standing) and Tomas measuring out our transplants in the field.

Joe is now in his 3rd  Full season with us!

Light tillage is done to prepare fields for more transplanting.

7 kids (baby goats) were born in April.

Keegan broadens his farming experience and is now milking goats.

Chris deep tilling Millburn Central School's future garden.

Keegan adding mulch to our second year apple trees.

Our young garlic are sizing up really well.

Chris cultivating onions.

Our piglets are growing well and are enjoying the warm weather.

Michelle and Keegan move irrigation pipe in our lower fields.

Tomas and Michelle transplanting corn while Joe manages the tractor.

Everyone got involved in digging trenches for planting our asparagus.

Asparagus crown.

Chamomile ready for harvest, tea anyone?

A few hand tools we can't live without.



We've nearly reached our CSA goal!
 With only a few weeks away we would appreciate you telling your friends about our farm. Share with them our website filled with information or our email, tempelfarmsorganics@yahoo.com
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Many thanks to all of you,
Your farmers,
Tania and Chris Cubberly along with our crew: Joe, Duncan, Tomas, Keegan and Michelle.

Last week for ........

This will be the last week for green garlic, 

spinach and asparagus!

We have a limited amount so place your orders soon!

Busy in the kitchen.....

Skillet-Baked Eggs with Spinach

Asparagus with Green Garlic

Roasted Asparagus and Eggs

Available beginning May 17th:

Green garlic will be sold as 5 to 6 in a bunch for $3.00.

1/2 pound bags of spinach is $4.00

 pasture raised eggs are $5.50 a dozen

1 pound green asparagus for $5.00

Pick up for these items will be available in our farm stand, 17970 W. Millburn Road,

 beginning on Thursday, May 17th, 7 days a week,  9am and 7pm.

Please place your order the day before you'd like to pick up, same day orders may not be available.

For anyone that would like to pick up an order on the weekend please place your order by Friday as we do not check our email over the weekend!

 How to place your order:

Please send us an email, tempelfarmsorganics@yahoo.com

 and let us know your name, how many bags of spinach, how many bunches of green garlic,

 how many pounds of green asparagus and

 how many dozens of eggs you'd like and what day you would like to pick up.

 We will confirm your order via email and have your name on your bag waiting for you in the fridge.

We will accept cash or checks written out to Tempel Farms Organics.

Vegetable CSA shares are still available! 

Please join us this season and explore a culinary journey of midwest seasonal exceptional produce.

Our Fruit Shares are sold out.

Please visit our website for information, Tempel Farms Organics!

Our CSA shares will begin on Thursday, June 14 sign up today!

Thank you for your support,

Your farmers,

Tania and Chris Cubberly and our crew, Tomas, Joe, Keegan, Duncan and Michelle!

Get ready for Asparagus!

Thank you to everyone who has come to the farm to pick up eggs, green garlic and spinach!

We would also like to offer Green Asparagus!

Did you know that newly planted asparagus crowns take 3 years to establish before you can harvest them?

This season we are finally planting our crop but really who can wait until 2015!

In the meantime we don't want you to miss out on locally grown asparagus. 

This green asparagus is grown by our farmer friend in St. Joseph Michigan, Mick Klug Farm.

Busy in the kitchen!

Asparagus with bread crumb fried egg!

Asparagus soup with Green Garlic and Egg! 

Warm Spinach salad with fried egg!

Available beginning May 9th:
Green garlic will be sold as 5 to 6 in a bunch for $3.00.
1/2 pound bags of spinach is $4.00
 pasture raised eggs are $5.50 a dozen
1 pound green asparagus for $5.00

Pick up for these items will be available in our farm stand, 17970 W. Millburn Road,
 beginning on Wednesday, May 9th, 7 days a week,  9am and 7pm.


Please place your order the day before you'd like to pick up, same day orders may not be available.
For anyone that would like to pick up an order on the weekend please place your order by Friday as we do not check our email over the weekend!

 How to place your order:

Please send us an email, tempelfarmsorganics@yahoo.com
 and let us know your name, how many bags of spinach, how many bunches of green garlic,
 how many pounds of green asparagus and

 how many dozens of eggs you'd like and what day you would like to pick up.

 We will confirm your order via email and have your name on your bag waiting for you in the fridge.

We will accept cash or checks written out to Tempel Farms Organics.


Vegetable CSA shares are still available! 
Please join us this season and explore a culinary journey of midwest seasonal exceptional produce.
Please visit our website for information, Tempel Farms Organics!


We have been very busy transplanting our seedlings out in the field and hoophouses!

 Red Russian Kale 

From left to right: herbs, cucumbers, carrots, more carrots and potatoes.

We hope you'll join us this week for asparagus, eggs, spinach and green garlic.

Thank you!

Your farmers,

Tania and Chris Cubberly along with our crew, Michelle, Keegan, Tomas, Duncan and Joe

Green Garlic, Fresh Eggs and Winter Spinach for sale!

Thank you to so many of you who have come to the farm to pick up eggs and spinach!

We can now offer a new crop that is ready for harvest, Green Garlic.

What's green garlic? This is an item that you'll rarely see at the grocery store. Green garlic is a young garlic that is grown before the bulb matures. It's leaves are long and green and the bulb is small and pale. It looks very similar to an over grown scallion. The flavor is amazing! For those of you that are not a huge garlic fan this may change your mind. This young bulb is not as bold as a mature garlic clove and adds a bit of sweetness to your dish. You can use the green stalks and the white bulb in your recipe. One recipe for this green garlic is with spinach!

Green garlic will be sold as 5 to 6 in a bunch for $3.00.
1/2 pound bags of spinach is $4.00 and eggs are $5.50 a dozen.

Pick up for these items will be available in our farm stand, 17970 W. Millburn Road,
 Sunday through Saturday between 9am and 7pm.

Here is how to place your order:

Please send us an email, tempelfarmsorganics@yahoo.com
 and let us know your name, how many bags of spinach, how many bunches of green garlic

 and how many dozens of eggs you'd like and what day you will be picking up.

 We will confirm your order via email and have your name on your bag waiting for you in the fridge.

We will accept cash or checks written out to Tempel Farms Organics.


More exciting news!

We had 2 baby goats born on Friday April 20th
 and 5 baby goats born on Sunday April  22!
All of them, even their mothers, are healthy and enjoying their new beginnings.

If you come to the farm to pick up your produce come and take a look at these beauties.
Their home is on the east side of the barn.
Please don't feed them as they are all on a special organic diet, mother's milk, organic hay and grain.

We've also added to our livestock............


15 piglets that were born in late February. We bought these piglets from the same farmers as we did last season, Nate and Lou Ann Robinson of  Jake's Country Meats located in Cassopolis Michigan.

We hope that you'll join us for some green garlic, spinach and eggs!

Your farmers,

Tania and Chris Cubberly along with our crew, Tomas, Michelle, Keegan, Duncan and Joe!

Spinach and eggs for sale!

Fresh Eggs and Over Wintered Spinach are for sale!

Don't miss out on this frost sweetened, hearty spinach!
It stands up very well for cooking and is also fantastic raw.

We will have 1/2 pound bags already packed for $4.00 and eggs are $5.50 a dozen.

Pick up for these items will be available in our farm stand, 17970 W. Millburn Road,
 Sunday through Saturday between 9am and 7pm.

Please send us an email, tempelfarmsorganics@yahoo.com
 and let us know your name, how many bags of spinach

 and how many dozens of eggs you'd like and what day you will be picking up.

 We will confirm your order via email and have your name on your bag.

We will accept cash or checks written out to Tempel Farms Organics.

More exciting news will follow in just a few days!

Thank you for your continued support of our farm and have a great week!

Your farmers,
Tania and Chris Cubberly and our crew, Duncan, Joe, Tomas, Keegan and Michelle

Eggs and CSA shares for sale!

Our hens are enjoying the Spring and producing delicious eggs!

If anyone is interested in purchasing eggs please send us an email to place your order.

 Let us know how many dozen you would like and what day you'd like to pick them up. 

Our eggs ($5.50 a dozen) are only available for pick up Monday through Friday between 9 and 4pm.

 The pick up location is in our farm stand located at 17970 W. Millburn Road.

We will confirm your order by sending you a response by email and will have your order ready.

Thank you!

Thank you to all of you who have joined our CSA for the upcoming season!

We are very close to being sold out so if you haven't signed up yet please do.

 If you have any questions about our CSA shares please send us and email and we'll be happy to answer your questions.

Our website is filled with information too, www.tempelfarmsorganics.com

Don't forget that not only do we offer vegetable shares

 we also have our seasonal fruit shares and  fall vegetable shares.

Enjoy Spring!

Your farmers,

Tania and Chris Cubberly along with our crew Joe, Duncan, Tomas, Keegan and Michelle!

Welcome Spring!

Welcome Spring!

What amazing weather we are having! Secretly I have been enjoying the weather while I know this is not right. We should have our snow shovels out, hats, boots and a weekend planned for sledding. Instead we have found ourselves digging out our shorts, enjoying meals outside and preparing our home garden.

Our work for 2012 season began February 29th. Tables of onions were seeded in flats followed by herbs, broccoli, kale, fennel, celery and various flowers.

Our garlic is growing strong in the field. Besides the growing cover crop and over wintered spinach it's nice to see green growing among the soil.

Our hoop house is busy as well with potatoes and carrots seeded in the ground. Our Rosemary to the far left survived well over the Winter. This will be a nice early addition to our beginning Summer Vegetable CSA Shares.

Our day-old Isa Brown Layers that we received in February are growing well. Now that they are fully feathered their brooder doors are open and they're enjoying using the ramp that leads them outside.

Can anyone spot the rooster?

We would like to welcome Duncan to our crew!

This weather does give us a head start in preparing beds. Here Duncan and Joe weed out the blueberry bushes.

Bila, one of our dairy goats is due at the end of April. This will be her first time kidding and by the size of her she looks like she's growing two! 

Looking for CSA shares? We offer Full and Half Vegetable Share, Fall Vegetable Shares and Fruit Shares. Click HERE  for more information.

We offer pick up locations at our farm, in Lake Forest and a new location in Logan Square Area of Chicago! Get to know your farmer and enjoy the bounty from our farm!

   

In need of eggs? Send us an email, tempelfarmsorganics@yahoo.com. We'll coordinate an on farm pick up time for you during the week between 9 and 4pm. Let us know!

Enjoy the weather!

Your farmers,

Tania and Chris Cubberly along with our crew, Duncan and Joe!