Having trouble getting good, healthy food during the crisis?

Your local farmers are ready to help. And you’ll be helping them by ordering fresh produce, meat, eggs, and dairy. Some farms are offering CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) shares. Some are offering custom orders. All offer pickup locations within the city, often right in your neighborhood. It’s time to pull together and keep eating healthy.

Our Featured Farms

These farms are supporting the Keep Healthy Campaign and The Mike Nowak Show. We hope you will support them by ordering their high-quality, sustainable products.

Eden Place Farms is just a part of the remarkable Eden Place Nature Center in the Fuller Park neighborhood of Chicago. Eden Place provides opportunities for south side residents and children to interact with animals and till the soil of vegetable gardens. 20 years after its initial opening, Eden Place remains dedicated to growing opportunities for learning, recreation, health, and employment in areas of nature conservation and urban agriculture. It has received the EPA Native Prairie Award and was designated by Illinois Governor Quinn as the Monarch Butterfly Learning Center for Illinois. This year, Eden Place Farms is offering an unusually flexible and affordable CSA. Click here for more.

Joe’s Blues brings some of Michigan’s sweetest organic blueberries – frozen and fresh – to customers and markets throughout the Chicago Metro area. Joe’s is one of the few blueberry farms in our area  that uses organic growing practices. It’s a part of Moss Funnel Farms, a farm started ten years ago by Joe Corrado and named for a jazz outfit he belongs to. As a father-son – or “son-father,” as Frank put it – operation, old property, filled with 61-year-old Jersey blueberry bushes, is a thriving, all-natural blueberry farm. Joe’s Blues also sells  zero and low sugar blueberry preserves, pure dried berries, 35% cream ice cream,  moisturizing soap and blueberry vinegar. Click here for more.

Backyard Patch Herbs is a home-grown endeavor of herb gardener, Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh. She has been gardening and creating with herbs for more than twenty years, inventing dozens of herbal cooking blends, teas and bath products. Her main mission is to provide quality dried herb blends for home, bath and tea that are preservative and chemical free. Because her husband had allergies to MSG and other food enhancers and preservatives, she created a line of products that he–and you–could enjoy and not have to worry about ingredients so often listed under “other spices.” Click to read more . . .

Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery is owned by Wes Jarrell and Leslie Cooperband. In 2003, they moved from an urban and academic life in Madison, Wisconsin to rural Champaign-Urbana Illinois. That first season, they began to transform their land from cash grain agriculture to perennial production with a lush cover crop of buckwheat. In 2004, they planted over 350 fruit trees and 600 berry plants AND purchased their first four Nubian goats (three does and one buck). Click to read more . . .

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