Saturday On Farm Market!

 

 YES we will be OPEN THIS SATURDAY 6/22!!!

 

 

Please stop by and see us to purchase retail farm products.....

 

*Every Thursday 4 - 7 pm on the farm

 

*Every Saturday 8 am - 2 pm on the farm

 

*Every Sunday 10 am - 3 pm at the Logan Square Farmers Market

 

*Every first and third Sundays of the month

           May 5 through October 20, 2013 9 am - 3 pm at Chicago Botanic Garden

 

 

 



CSA Week 2!

 

 

Flowers like these calendulas are coming along nicely despite the unseasonably cool nights.

Tania will have lots of gorgeous bouquets for sale this Thursday and Saturday on the farm.

Also plenty of flowers this Sunday at the Logan Square Farmer's Market! 

Our hardworking crew harvests arugula from under 'row cover'.

This physical barrier protects certain crops from certain pests.

It is also helpful in keeping the covered crop just a bit warmer and moister, therefore

shaving off a few days from the calendar and giving us mature vegetables a few days sooner.

 

 

 

 

This is a FULL SHARES week...Full Vegetable & Fruit Shares!

Pick up is Thursday, June 20th.
4-7 pm at your respective site.

 

 

 

Next week is an ALL SHARES week again so HALF SHARE folks, no pick up this week.

 

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

 

• Garlic Scapes (the unopened flower of the garlic plant)

• Head Lettuce (2 green oak leaf & 2 mini red romaine)

• Arugula

• Chinese Cabbage (from our hoophouse)

• Dandelion Greens (long, serrated, dark green leaves)

• Sorrel (shorter, lemony leaves)

• Green Scallions

• Spicy Mustard Salad Mix

• Green Asparagus (from Mick Klug Farm)

  
  
  
  Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...

• Strawberries (3 quarts!)
  

Farmer's Market Announcment

 

**Please Note: The Farm Stand will not be open this Saturday 6/15.
We will however be open the following Saturdays until at least the end of October.

Thank you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Please stop by and see us to purchase retail farm products.....

 

*Every Thursday 4 - 7 pm on the farm

*Every Saturday 8 am - 2 pm on the farm (except This Saturday) 

 

*Every Sunday 10 am - 3 pm at the Logan Square Farmers Market

 

*Every first and third Sundays of the month
           May 5 through October 20, 2013 9 am - 3 pm at Chicago Botanic Garden

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a few links to the video files that I have tried in vain to post in the past two newsletters.

1. Queen Bee

 

2. Cultivating Swiss Chard

 

3. Plastic Mulch

 

4. Mother Killdeer



Eat Well, Eat Local.....and Thank You!

Chris & Tania Cubberly, Larry, Joe, Michelle, Tomas, Peter, Jesus, Kyle, Chris & Kate




 

 

 

 

First CSA Week!

Edible, beautiful and oniony!

These chive blossoms were raked carefully from the top of the chive plants.

Break them up lightly with your fingers and sprinkle liberally over your salad, potatoes, soup or make a gorgeous compound butter for grilled meats and veggies.

 

This is an ALL SHARES week...Full Vegetable, Half Vegetable & Fruit Shares!

That means that everybody picks up their shares from their respective sites this week.

 

Pick up is Thursday, June 13th.

 

Next week is ONLY for those with Full Vegetable and Fruit Shares.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

 

• Lettuce Heads
• Green Garlic
• Chive Blossoms
• TFO Custom Lettuce/Arugula Mix
• Green Curly Kale
• Bag of Popcorn
• Green Asparagus (from Mick Klug Farm)
• 1/2 lb. Shiitake Mushrooms (from River Valley Ranch)
  

 

 

 

Your Fruit Harvest for this week...

• 2 quarts of Strawberries
• Bunch of Rhubarb
  (both from Mick Klug Farm)

**Just a note seasonality. This season couldn't be any different from last season. Things are moving
along very slowly but steadily with the very cool nights. We'll take this season over last season any day even though it does require some patience.

So Remember...this isn't the grocery store...this is reality. (in northern Illinois anyway.)

 

 

 

 



                            Know your pick up site??

 

 

On the farm!
CSA Pick Up and Farm stand!!

 

4 - 7 pm

17970 W. Millburn Road

Old Mill Creek, Il. 60083

 

 

Lake Forest!

 

4 - 7 pm

The Simpson Residence-

1490 N. Green Bay Road

Lake Forest, Il. 60045

 

 

 

Logan Square in Chicago!

 

4 - 7 pm

Provenance Food and Wine-

2528 N. California Ave.

Chicago, Il. 60647

 

 

 

 

Mowing down a fall cover crop of winter rye and hairy vetch.

The stubble was immediately tilled in and later will be more space for our

on going planting schedule.

 

 

 

 

Here you see 15 little hogs under a giant Willow.

We welcomed these charming creatures to our farm a few weeks ago.

Believe it or not, these small hogs will reach a weight of between 250 - 300 lbs. by the

time mid-October rolls around. They will get to that market weight with a certified organic corn and soy ration along with roots, tubers, nuts, grubs and lots of vegetable scraps in their outdoor home.

 

 

 

 

A few weeks ago we prepared some of our fields with plastic mulch.

We use plastic mulch on tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, most cucurbits and sweet potatoes.

We are constantly on the look out for better and more inert/less environmentally impactive products that a small vegetable farm business can afford. There are companies producing degradable and bio-degradable mulches but these current products have problems associated with them and are way out of our price range. Some would say, 'use straw for mulch'. I would say yes but straw presents a whole new set of built in weed problems.

 

 

 

 

This video was taken in March but I just had to share it.

It shows another one of our favorite creatures living here among us at the farm.

This is a mother Killdeer playing as if she is injured to divert a would be attacker (coyote, skunk, mink, raccoon or farmer with an iphone) away from her precious nest of eggs and attract them to her instead.

Notice her beautifully speckled and perfectly camouflaged  eggs are very precariously nestled directly in the center of one of our fields. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please stop by and see us to purchase retail farm products.....

 

Every Thursday 4 - 7 pm on the farm

Every Saturday 8 am - 2 pm on the farm

 

Every Sunday 10 am - 3 pm at the Logan Square Farmers Market

 

Every First and third Sundays of the month
May 5 through October 20, 2013 9 am - 3 pm at Chicago Botanic Garden

 



 

 

 

Carrots, Spinach, Pork & more!

I don't know who that groundhog is but I think he needs to sharpen his meteorological skills.

Never mind all that cold, windy, snowy business... 

 We have some fantastic items for you to order and pick up
 at the farm!

  

 

 

 

 

 

• CARROTS - Super sweet and crunchy from our hoophouse  - $4.00 per bunch
• SPINACH - Thick, hearty and sweet from our hoophouse - $4.00 per 1/2 lb. bag
• EGGS - Rich, delicious, habit forming - $5.50 per dozen
• POPCORN, grown in our fields in 2012 - $5.00 per 1 lb. jar
• PORK CHOPS - Bone-in, 1" thick, 2 per pack - $9.00 lb
• BACON - belly bacon, natural cure, hickory smoked - $10.00 lb. pack
• COTTAGE BACON - leaner shoulder bacon, natural cure, hickory smoked - $10.00 lb. pack
• JOWL BACON - jowl/cheek bacon, more fatty & delicate, natural cure, hickory smoked $10.00 lb. pack
• HAM ROAST - Between 4 lbs. & 8 lbs. Natural cure, hickory smoked - $8.00 lb.
• HAM STEAKS - Between 1 lb. & 1.5 lbs. Natural cure, hickory smoked - $8.00 lb.
• PORK SHOULDER ROAST - Low & slow cooking! Between 4 lbs. & 8 lbs. - $8.00 lb.
• SMOKED PORK HOCKS - Lots of meat on these smoky hocks. 1.5 - 2 lbs. each - $3.00 lb.
• NECK BONES - Soup, stock, flavor... -  $2.00 lb.

 

 

 

Email us with you order!

**Our new farm order email address is tempelorders@yahoo.com
(This is only for ordering products from the farm.)

 

 

*The deadline for this weeks orders is 12:00 noon this Friday 3/22.

*Orders will be available for PICK UP ON THE FARM
 FRIDAY - SUNDAY 3/22 - 3/24

 

*In your email, please include; ITEM, QUANTITY, PICK UP DAY & TIME.

We will then send you a conformation email with a total and details for your pick up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are still room available for
2013 CSA shares!

Go to our website for details

 

 

Welcome Lincoln Square!

 

 

Check out our new

 delivery location for our CSA vegetable and fruit shares!

 

 

We will now deliver to Provenance Food and Wine located in Lincoln Square!

 

They are located at

2312 West Leland

Chicago, Illinois

 

We offer wonderful summer vegetable and fruit shares available from June until November!

Please check out our website, www.tempelfarmsorganics.com

 

We look forward to growing for you this season,

 

Tania and Chris Cubberly

2013 CSA time!

We hope that everyone enjoyed the holidays and ringing in the new year!

 

Now that all the parties are over,  kids are back to school and the rest of us are back to finding our routines it seems like a great time to think about joining our 2013 CSA!

 

 

Some of you may already be familiar to what a CSA is but to those of you that don't .......

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. This is a system where individuals prepay for a bounty of the farm's vegetables and fruit. We offer vegetable shares that are harvested for you weekly or biweekly, mid June until the end of November. Our fruit is offered for 18 weeks, mid June through mid October.

 

At our farm we grow a diverse variety of crops so that each week we'll harvest for you 8 to 12 different vegetables depending on what is ripe and ready in that time of the season. We also follow strict guidlines for growing organically and will certify our land in the near future.

 

Come on and enjoy the bounty with us!

Visit our site at www.tempelfarmsorganics.com for more information.

We have a lot to offer you this season and look forward to growing for you!

 

  

Not sure which share would be right for you?

 

Send us your questions and we'll be happy to answer them! Simply send us an email at

tempelfarmsorganics@yahoo.com

Don't forget! Our eggs are available through out the winter and spring. Pick up for eggs are available on Fridays and Saturdays. You'll need to first send us an email Sunday through Thursday and let us know how many you'd like to pick up.
They are $5.50 and exact payment will be required.
Once we confirm your order we'll have it ready for you to pick up inside our farm stand.

 

Thanks again for supporting local and organically grown foods, we'll keep farming because of you.

 

Your farmers,

Tania and Chris Cubberly