Fresh Produce

How Many For Dinner?

The selection of produce changes from week to week, as does the total volume and weight of the boxes. We do our best to fill your weekly ¾ bushel produce box to the brim, equivalent to about 1½ regular paper grocery sacks. The first boxes of the season offer mainly leafy greens and herbs; they weigh 7 to 12 pounds. From late summer through fall, the boxes may bulge with over 20 pounds of produce. One share generally satisfies the needs of two people with a vegetarian diet, or four people with a mixed diet.

Really Fresh; Really Local

These days, "fresh" seems to mean fresh off the truck from California, and "local" is anything east of the Rockies, and west of the Atlantic. When we say it, we mean it. For us, fresh means we hand-pick most of the vegetables in your box within 24 hours of its arrival in your neighborhood. Local means settlers here smelled the smoke from the Great Chicago Fire. Our farm is a 2-hour drive northwest of Chicago, a ½ hour drive northeast of Rockford.

Know Your Food; Know Your Farmer

No anonymous veggies here; the boxes talk! With each delivery our shareholders receive a weekly newsletter acquainting you with your food and its interesting upbringing -- a synergy of weather, soil, sun, and sweat. The newsletter also assists with the kitchen end of the food chain; cooking tips and recipes make it easier to get to know (and like) new foods.

Come See Your Vegetables Growing Up!

Beyond cultivating a relationship with new foods, shareholders can cultivate a new relationship with food by following the food chain back to the soil; we invite you out to the farm several times each season. You can visit the vegetables, touch the sweet-smelling dirt, pick black raspberries from the woods, talk farming with the farm hands.

How To Get Your Box:

We deliver to over a dozen sites around the Chicago area. You choose the most convenient location; we bring your box to this site on the same day each week. You have an approximately 7-hour window during which you can pick up your box. For more information, or to complete the order form, click here.