These summer storms have been crazy! We hope you all have been staying safe and enjoying the sunshine and thunderstorms alike. Unfortunately, some of those powerful wind gusts almost pushed a section of our corn over, but fortunately it’s still growing (just on an angle). See this week’s post to learn more about what went out this week!

Summer is here! Garlic is harvested. Corn is shoulder high. Onions are swelling and potatoes are on the cusp of coming out of the ground. The garden is booming but also on the verge of being overrun with weeds this year. Farming really is a full-time job! We hope to welcome some of you to the garden soon for some fun events and volunteer days.

In the last two weeks, we managed to get engaged, host our housewarming AND bring you crates of delicious, organically grown produce and mason jars full of fresh flowers - so we are calling it a WIN! We saw big swells of rain water and mustered our way through a wicked heat wave so things are growing leaps and bounds and forever presenting unique challenges. We are drowning in weeds and fighting off vermin (bunnies and beetles) but thrilled to have some new veggies coming up and new customers to satisfy - LIFE IS GOOD.

We are thrilled to return to bringing fresh produce, flowers, herbs, and handmade goodies to our subscribers! It was great to meet some new friends as well as welcome back some familiar faces. This year is much wetter than the previous, and we are grateful for all of the rain we have received. We moved into a new house in April, which made it difficult to focus on the garden for a few weeks, but eternally grateful we got it over with before things really got underway.

This year has been a new adventure brought on by a wet and stormy spring. Things are moving along swimmingly and we can’t wait to return to serving our CSA customers plenty of produce and flowers from June to October! If you aren’t a subscriber but still want farm goodies please reach out and we would love to accommodate. Check out this page for more info on harvest dates, pickup details, and volunteer opportunities.

This year we are excited to offer more options for our customers to customize their CSA subscriptions to fit their needs. Boxes are available for pick-up on the farm bi-weekly. We would love to show you the magic this land has to offer.

The end is finally here! We are so thankful to all of our supporters throughout this growing season. It has been a challenge but incredibly rewarding to know that we are feeding so many people we love and care about nourishing, organic produce and showering them with pesticide-free bouquets!

We are thrilled to offer a wide variety in this box. Harvest season is here! While many things are slowing down in production, a few things just won’t quit. Many of our plants are starting to finish, and we have plenty of squash and pumpkins becoming more and more visible as they change color and the vines die back. It’s always fun to see what lurks beneath the green, lush foliage as things give way.

The seasons are certainly shifting. However, yesterday was a perfect beach day in Chicago so we are eternally grateful to everyone who accommodated an earlier or later delivery than usual. We greatly enjoyed our Labor Day relaxing in the sun. Although it might be slipping into fall, this is actually one of the busiest times of the year for us. Seed collecting takes up a good chunk of time, along with harvesting, and planting the last of the fall crops and garlic for next year. It’s a race to the first frost in October. We still have two bountiful boxes of produce coming after this one!

It’s more than halfway through the growing season and we are pretty happy with how things have gone. We are endlessly pulling weeds and behind on planting fall cover crops that will regenerate our soil. It is a nonstop to-do list and a race to the first frost at this point. It’s crazy to think in just a couple short weeks we will begin putting the garden to rest. Feeling a bit of the farmer’s fatigue but pushing through to bring ya’ll some tasty produce and lush bouquets.