5th Annual Farm Tour!

Come one Come all! TODAY!

Our 5th annual Farm Tour will take place THIS Saturday, August 17 @ 10:00am -12:00pm.
This is a walking tour so bring sturdy shoes, light clothing, water, sun hats, sun screen....
Kids are most certainly welcome although strollers always prove to be very difficult due to our lack of walking paths and surprisingly steep, mid-western terrain.
We will share with you how we grow, we'll taste some food directly from mother earth and you will meet our lovely and talented crew!
(Alternate rain date: Sat. Aug. 24th)













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 Sunday of the month

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

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CSA Week 10!

These yellow storage onions are pulled from the ground and laid directly on the soil in the sun.

In two or three days we will haul them into our shade cloth covered green house to finish curing in the cool, airy and rain free environment.

Laying onions out in the sun for a few days dries out the roots and greens and really cuts down

 the green house drying time. Cured this way, the storage onions will keep for a significantly

 long time.

You will start seeing some of these beautiful, pungent alliums in your CSA share

 in the coming weeks!

 

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

That means only those with Fruit and FULL Vegetable shares will pick up.

Pick up is Thursday, August 15th. 4-7 pm at your respective site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable for this Week...

• Red Hoop House Slicer Tomatoes
• Broccoli
• 3 Heads of Lettuce
• Sweet Corn
• Green Swiss Chard
• Russet (baker) Potatoes
• Shallots
• Savoy Cabbage
• Cucumbers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...
  
          
• Blackberries
• Blueberries
• Peaches
• Nectarines

Here you see Kyle continuing the task of tying or trellising tomato plants. This is a brutal job especially when it is hot and humid.(this picture was taken a few weeks ago when it was very hot and very humid.)

Speaking of weather...these last couple of weeks have been very un-August like with day time temps struggling to reach 80 and recent night time temps actually dipping into the upper 40s!

Cool summer weather makes for very slow tomato, pepper and melon growth and ripening.

CSA members WILL get a wide variety of field grown tomatoes in the coming weeks!

 Really!

It will just take some more time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our flowers are so beautiful, they are flying off the shelves at the farm stand!

 

 

 

Tania, Kate and Michelle make some really fantastic bouquets.

 

Special orders for special-occasion flowers are easy.
Please, email us to talk about your special event. 

Farm Stand & Farmer's Market

 

Come Check Out the Farm Stand on Saturday

Lots and lots of Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers and Eggs

The Farm Stand is open today, Saturday August 10th 8 am - 2 pm.

Click for a map.

Also...

Please Join Us TOMORROW, SUNDAY at the

Logan Square Farmers Market!

The Logan Square Farmers Market is open tomorrow, Sunday August 11th  10 am - 3 pm.

Come see us along with over 50 other vendors. It makes for a great Sunday!

CSA Week 9!

 It was a muddy morning as Joe unloaded 640 heads of lettuce into our wash house. These lettuce heads were then dunked and sprayed and quickly cooled so they remain crunchy and sweet.

 

 

 

 

 

This is a ALL SHARES week...FULL and HALF Vegetable and Fruit Shares!

 

Pick up is Thursday, August 8th.

4-7 pm at your respective site.

 

 

 

 



 

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

 

 

 

• Arugula

• 3 Heads Lettuce (romaine, green leaf and red leaf)

• Broccoli

• Fresh, Sweet, White Onions

• Purple Potatoes

• Celery

• Sweet Corn

• Summer Squash
  
  

Sweet, White Onions are curing in our shade cloth-covered greenhouse.

CSA members will receive fresh (uncured), cleaned versions of these onions this week.

We pulled these shallots out of the ground and they are curing as well.
Curing is controlled drying. When certain varieties of onions are grown to maturity and cured properly, they will keep for many months without sprouting.

CSA Week 8!

 

Your Vegetable CSA share for this week.

 

 

 

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

That means only those with Fruit and FULL Vegetable shares will pick up.

Pick up is Thursday, August 1st. 4-7 pm at your respective site.

 

 

 

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

But please stop by the farm, pick up a few things in our retail area and say hello!

 

 

 

 

 

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

  

• 2 beautiful, purple Eggplant
• 3 mini Romaine Lettuce Heads
• Leeks
• Yellow Wax Beans
• Slicing Cucumbers
• Golden Beets with Greens
• 1 Garlic Head
• Cilantro

Armenian Striped Cucumber*

These Armenian Cucumbers are really crunchy, and sweet

but certainly not uniform!

You will receive one of these beauties whether long and curled or short and straight.

The skin is very thin and great to eat so don't peel them.

Your Fruit Harvest for this Week...

 

• Pristine Apples (a nice early summer variety! sweet - tart)
• Nectarines
• Apricots
• Peaches

Golden sunlight following an afternoon shower.

Our multi-colored hogs enjoying the rain after a long, hot spell.







Here we inspecting a sampling of 4 of the 7 colorful varieties of potatoes we planted this year.
This is turning out to be a great potato and onion year for us!


 
 



Have you been seeing a lot of these green katydids around lately?
We have.
This one rests on our cooler door.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yellow wheat straw from our winter wheat was cut, baled and loaded into
the barn for use as bedding for our laying hens.


 
 
 
 
 
 




We offer flower arrangements for special occasions.
Send us an email for more details!

















To ALL off-farm CSA members!

Please return your past weeks fruit and vegetable boxes.
We will reuse them.

CSA Week 7!

Part of our hard working, hat wearing harvest crew.

(L - R) Chis A., Jesus, Kyle, Dan, Peter and Tomas

This is a ALL SHARES week...FULL and HALF Vegetable and Fruit Shares!

 

Pick up is Thursday, July 25th.

4-7 pm at your respective site.

Your Vegetable Harvest for this Week...

 

 

• Cucumbers

• Sweet Corn

• Green Beans

• Fresh Cippolini Onions

• Romanesco

• Cauliflower

• Dill

• Yellow Squash and Green Zucchini

• Toscano Kale
  
  

  

  Romanesco
  

Farm Stand SATURDAY & Logan Square SUNDAY!

Come Check Out the Farm Stand on Saturday

Lots and lots of Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers & Eggs

 

The Farm Stand is open today, Saturday July 27th  8 am - 2 pm.

Click for a map.

Also...

 

Please Join Us TOMORROW, SUNDAY at the

Logan Square Farmers Market!

 

The Logan Square Farmers Market is open tomorrow, Sunday July 28st  10 am - 3 pm.

 

Come see us along with over 50 other vendors. It makes for a great Sunday!