Community Supported Ag Directory

Illinois Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Directory

A CSA, (for Community Supported Agriculture) is a way for the food buying public to create a relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become “members” (or “shareholders,” or “subscribers”) of the CSA. Most CSA farmers prefer that members pay for the season up-front, but some farmers will accept weekly or monthly payments. Some CSAs also require that members work a small number of hours on the farm during the growing season.

Note: The contents of this page are a 2009 update to the 2007 IIRA publication, Illinois Directory of Community Supported Agriculture. Further comprehensive updates are not currently planned, although we are glad to update individual listings on request. For a more complete picture of Illinois CSAs, we recommend using the 2009 IIRA directory on this page in combination with the USDA CSA Directory and other directory sites on the IIRA local foods page. As of February 2015 the USDA directory contained 21 Illinois CSA listings, only three of which were also among the 39 Illinois-based CSAs in the 2009 IIRA list below. This likely reflects a mixture of CSA operations that have not yet added their information to the USDA site and operations that have ceased marketing as a CSA.

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Boone County

• Angelic Organics – Owner(s): John Peterson and Bob Bower
  Address:
  1547 Rockton Road
  Caledonia, IL

  Phone: 815-398-2746
  Website: http://www.angelicorganics.com

  Description: Biodynamic Farming methods, subscription service, internship opportunities, onsite CSA learning center, drop off and pickup service available.

  Acreage: 80
  Registered: Yes
  Number of Shares: 1200
  Full Share: 20 weeks-$560
  Half Share: 12 weeks-$370
  Delivery or Pickup: Both

• Potluck Produce – Owner(s): Kristine Schnor
  Address:
  4649 Bates Road
  Belvidere, IL 61008

  Phone: 815-544-9782

  Description: We think it is important the customer be able to choose the produce they like to eat. Over the growing season (late May – October), we will send an email each Wednesday with what we expect to be available for the week and the price. You can select “our choice”, or you can customize your box by choosing what you want to spend your $20 on for each week. Let us know by Thursday night what you have selected. You do not need to order every week. Produce will be delivered Fri afternoon or Saturday. You do not need to be home if you can let us know a safe place to leave it. Pick up at our farm is also an option.

  Number of Shares: 15
  Full Share: $20/week with a 5 week minimum
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

Bureau County

• Plow Creek Farm – Owner(s): Matthew Peterson – Listing updated 2016
  Address:
  1900 Bottom Road (C.R. 23)
  Tiskilwa, IL 61368

  Phone: 815-303-8895
  Email: csa@plowcreek.org
  Website: www.plowcreek.org/farm/csa.html  **

  Description: Plow Creek farm is a small farm producing an amazing variety of fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables for the Chicagoland area. We have 2 acres of vegetables which are sold at farmers markets and as part of our CSA. We also have 6 acres of berries which we sell through U-Pick, our CSA, Ready Pick and Wholesale orders. (strawberries, blackberries, spring and fall
  raspberries, and blueberries) We also raise grass fed beef and pastured pork. All our fruits and vegetables are Certified Naturally Grown, a grassroots alternative to the USDA Certified Organic Program. Our CSA has drop off sites in Naperville, Evanston, Peoria, and Tiskilwa, IL.

  Number of Shares: 80
  Full Share: $25/week
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

Champaign County

• Tomahnous Farm – Owner(s): Eric and Lisa
  Address:
  480 CR 2500 N
  Mahomet, IL 61853

  Email: tomahnousfarm@yahoo.com
  Phone: 217-586-5632

  Description: Certified Organic
  Full Share: 25wks, $15/wk
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Cook County

• Growing Home CSA – Address:
  1325 S. Wabash Ave. Suite 205
  Chicago, IL 60605

  Phone: 312-435-8601
  Website: http://www.growinghomeinc.org

  Description: Growing Home’s mission is to provide job training and create employment opportunities for homeless and low-income people in Chicago within the context of an organic agriculture business.

DeKalb County

• Buff Rock Farm – Address: Malta, IL 60150
  Phone: 815-825-2158
• Larson’s Family FarmOwner(s): Peter Spuit
  Address:
  4432 Somonauk Rd.
  Sandwich, IL 60548

  Phone: 815-786-3253

  Description: Our CSA members access a wide variety of fresh, nutritious vegetables throughout the growing season, from spring until the middle of October. We use organic growing methods to raise our produce. Preferring heirloom vegetable varieties, we raise a limited number of hybrids and do not order seeds that have been genetically modified. In addition, all of the CSA farming is accomplished by family members, family friends, and CSA members.

  Number of Shares: 45
  Full Share: $450/year for working members, $500/year for non-working members.
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

DuPage County

• Green Earth Institute Organic Farm – Owner(s): Steve Tiwald
  Address:
  10S404 Knoch Knolls Road
  Naperville, IL 60565

  Phone: 630-664-5681
  Website: www.greenearthinstitute.org

  Description: Our organic farm is the central focus of the Green Earth Institute, a nonprofit community organization dedicated to nutritional health and ecological sustainability. This year we are growing over 40 vegetables and herbs on 7 acres of our 60 acre farm located in Naperville. Our CSA serves the western and southwestern suburbs. We are now accepting CSA subscribers for the 2006 season. Download the signup form at our website.

  Acreage: 60
  Number of Shares: 160
  Full Share: $550 for the 20 week harvest season
  Half Share: $295 for a biweekly share (every other week)
  Delivery or Pickup: both

• Wellhausen Farms – Owner(s): James Wellhausen
  Address:
  27W061 St.Charles Rd.
  Wheaton, IL 60188

  Phone: 630-231-2350
  Website: www.wellhausengroup.com **

  Description: Come on and grow with us. Our farm produces over 70 types of fruits, vegetables and herbs. All of our food is grown by us at our farm, all natural all the time. Our produce is hand picked and delivered to your home weekly within hours of harvest. At Wellhausen we have fun with our food. We provide our customers with recipes on how to prepare the food they receive each week. Be a part of what you eat. Farm tours are available. Our renovated 100 year old farm house can be rented by the week or the weekend. Any way you slice it Wellhausen Farms is the place to go for organically grown food!

  Number of Shares: 50
  Full Share: $540.00/year or $140.00 to subscribe and $20.00 per wk for 20 weeks
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Fulton County

• Living Earth Farm CSA – Owner(s): Anne Patterson
  Address:
  23707 E. Autumn Rd.
  Farmington, IL 61531

  Phone: 309-245-7517
  Website: www.livingearthfarm.com **

  Description: Living Earth Farm is a small vegetable, herb, and fruit and flower farm, owned and operated by Anne Patterson, a registered dietitian. All produce is grown to protect your health and the environment. Produce is sold direct off farm on Tuesday, Friday afternoons 12-6 pm beginning April 4 and at Peoria Riverfront Market Saturdays, June through September.

Iroquois County

• Moore Family Farm – Owner(s): Jim, Diann, Wes & Aaron Moore
  Address:
  2013 N County Road 1950E
  Watseka, IL 60970

  Phone: 815.432.6238
  Website: www.prairielandcsa.org **

  Description: Jim, Diann, and sons, Wes and Aaron, raise antibiotic- and hormone-free grass fed beef, katahdin lamb, and goat; pastured free-range, antibiotic- and hormone-free Tamworth pork; chicken; Broad breasted White turkeys, and eggs (chicken and duck) in permaculture-type rotations with 20 acres of organic produce, herbs, and bedding plants on their 100-year old family farm near Watseka, Illinois. The Moore’s provide produce for Prairieland CSA (www.prairielandcsa.org). They also provide eggs, meat, poultry and/or certified chemical free wheat flours and organic corn flour, meal, and polenta for Fruited Plain Cooperative (www.fruitedplain.org), Common Ground Food Coop, Bacaro Italian restaurant and Persimmon grocery in Champaign, Illinois, in addition to selling at the Saturday Market on the Square in Urbana and at their farm.

  Number of Shares: 125
  Full Share: $410/full season
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Jefferson County

• Bullard Produce – Owner(s): Jonathan Bullard
  Address:
  909 S 22nd St
  Mt. Vernon IL 62846

  Phone: 618-231-2860

Kane County

• Lamb of God Farm – Owner(s): Donna Lehrer
  Address:
  7S027 Jericho Road
  Big Rock, IL 60511
  Phone: 630-556-3476

  Description: On our Big Rock farm, we strive to work in harmony with the land, weather and blessings God has bestowed on us. In our operations, whether in the barn with the sheep, goats and chickens, out in the grain fields or in our heirloom gardens, we do things naturally. This means no herbicides, pesticides or conventional fertilizers. Instead, we use sustainable practices, and the soil is healthier, the products tastier and the environment safer.

  Number of Shares: 40
  Full Share: $575 for a 23 week program
  Half Share: $345 for a 12 week program
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Knox County

• Hickory Hollow Farms – Owner(s): Johan Yeutson
  Address:
  1103 Old Wagon Rd
  Knoxville, IL 61448

  Phone: 309-289-4014

  Description: Hickory Hollow Farms is a sustainable uncertified organic farm producing vegetables for Galesburg Farmers Market, and a fifty member CSA. We also coordinate a buying club to meet local demand for natural foods. We also raise meat goats for slaughter and are planning on adding an egg layer flock May of 2006.

  Number of Shares: 50
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Lake County

• Prairie Crossing – Owner(s): Tom and Denise Peterson
  Address:
  32400 N. Harris Rd
  Prairie Crossing IL

  Phone: 847-548-4030
  Website: www.prairiecrossing.com

  Description: The garden at Prairie Crossing in Grayslake is a small organic farm which grows a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers each growing season. We encourage community involvement in the farm by hosting a medley of celebrations and workshops over the course of the season, by offering opportunities for individuals to help with the daily work of the farm and by making our fresh, organic produce and flowers available to the residents of the North Chicago suburbs.

  Acreage: 8

• Sandhill Organics – Owner(s): Matt and Peg Sheaffer
  Address:
  32140 N. Harris Road
  Grayslake, IL 60030

  Phone: (847) 548-4030

  Description: On average, produce from our farm makes up approximately seventy percent of the produce in the weekly box. We collaborate with several other local organic farmers to create a box that is as varied as possible from week to week. We encourage you to join us for the entire CSA season, from May through December, in order to truly appreciate the bounty and variety of each of the seasons.

  Number of Shares: 200
  Full Share: Spring Share – $150/$200 (standard/large) Summer Vegetable $475/$615 Fall/Winter Vegetable $200/$260 Entire Vegetable Season $750/$960 Fruit Share $180 Flower Share $180
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

LaSalle County

• The Family Patch – Owner(s): David Smith
  Address:
  4240 E 2225 Rd
  Sheridan, IL 60551

  Phone: 815-693-5997

  Description: The Family Patch is a locally owned and operated vegetable farm located just outside of Sheridan, IL. We offer a wide variety of fresh, delicious fruits and vegetables throughout the growing season. Although we are not certified as an organic grower, we do practice organic growing methods. By purchasing a share of our crop you will guarantee yourself 22 weeks of home grown, freshly harvest fruits and vegetables. You can expect to receive a bounty full variety of items delivered to a convenient pick-up location on a weekly basis.

  Number of Shares: 40
  Full Share: $400/season; Flexible payment plans available. A $105 deposit is required with sign-up application to reserve a share.
  Half Share: $200/season
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Lee County

• Crooked Row Farm – Owner(s): Nancy Nesyto-Freske
  Address:
  1735 Sublette Rd.
  Sublette, IL 61367

  Phone: 815-849-5140

  Description: Crooked Row Farm is a 13 acre organic farm specializing in heirloom and open-pollinated vegetables, rare and heirloom chickens, turkeys and sheep. We are starting a CSA in 2001, with delivery sites in Riverside, Warrenville and Hinckley, IL. We are open to new delivery sites in the Dixon and Mendota areas. We welcome farm visits, but please call in advance. We also offer vegetables for sale directly from our farm. This year we are also offering organic free-range chickens. Please contact us for details.

  Acreage: 13
  Number of Shares: 30
  Full Share: $325/year for 13 weeks
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Livingston County

• Prairieland CSA – Owner(s): Anna Barnes
  Address:
  P.O. Box 1404
  Champlain, IL

  Phone: (217) 355-6279
  Website: http://www.prairielandcsa.org **

  Description: Prairieland Community Supported Agriculture works with Jim & Diann Moore, and their sons Wes and Aaron of Moore Family Farm in Watseka, IL. The Moore’s raise produce and a variety of livestock in permaculture-type rotations on their nearly 100 year-old family farm. They deliver shares to Urbana and Champaign during the 33-week growing season (early April – mid November). Shares also may be picked up at the farm by Watseka area residents. If demand is present will deliver to suburban/metro Chicago in 2006. Shares may be purchased online. Online payment options also are available.

  Acreage: 60
  Number of Shares: 125
  Full Share: 29-week season will be $410, of which $385 of your share goes directly to the Moore’s.
  Delivery or Pickup: both

Madison County

• Biver Farms – Owner(s): Keith Biver
  Address:
  7307 Pin Oak Road
  Edwardsville, IL 62025

  Phone: 618-656-9082

  Description: Members pick up their shares at designated drop off points in the city of St. Louis, or in the town of Edwardsville.

  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

• La Vista Community Supported Garden – Owner(s): Rev. Maurice Lange
  Address:
  4350 Levis Lane
  Godfrey, IL 62035

  Phone: 618-467-2104
  Website: http://www.lavistacsa.org/

  Description: Learning Center, Community Garden

  Acreage: 5
  Number of Shares: 120
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

McDonough County

• Barefoot Gardens – Owner(s): John Curtis and Karen Mauldin-Curtis
  Address:
  3300 Bellingham Rd.
  Macomb, IL 61455

  Phone: (309) 254-3254
  Website: www.barefootgardens.org

  Description: Barefoot Gardens is a budding organic market garden located in southern McDonough County (10 miles south of Macomb, Illinois). We chose the name Barefoot Gardens because we feel the bare foot symbolizes our commitment to being good stewards of the land. At a time when agricultural technology increasingly alienates farmers from the ground that they work, we’ve chosen a gentler, more cooperative approach to working with the landscape.

  Acreage: 2
  Number of Shares: 44
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

• Good Hope Gardens – Owner(s): Grover & Mary Jo DeCounter and Clint & Tamara Jo Moore
  Address:
  445 East Main St.
  Good Hope, IL 61438

  Phone: (309) 456-3400 (shop); (309) 456-3884 (home)

  Description: This CSA is a small, highly specialized enterprise, with no more than twenty or so members at a time. McCounter also offers an early discount incentive for signing up before the season begins. His season begins in April and lasts through the fall. He makes a weekly CSA delivery into Macomb. McCounter says everything he raises has been organically produced for more than twenty years. (We use sunlight, earth, air, and water.) He has not seen a need to become certified as organic; his customers know him and know how he raises his produce. Home delivery and pickup offered at our shop at 445 East Main. Hours are Mon.-Sat.10am-6pm, but please call ahead to see when we open for the season.

  Acreage: 15
  Number of Shares: 35-40
  Delivery or Pickup: Delivery

McHenry County

• M’s Organic Farm – Owner(s): MM Graff
  Address:
  14101 W. Washington Street
  Woodstock, IL 60098

  Phone: 815-338-8148
  Number of Shares: 10
  Full Share: $435.00, $535.00 or $635.00 for 2l weeks
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

• Salute Farm and Vineyard – Owner(s): Haje Black
  Address:
  14317 Pleasant Valley Road
  Woodstock, IL 60098

  Phone: 312-718-0157
  Website: www.salutefarm.com  **

  Description: Salute! Farm & Vineyard is a newly established business in rural Woodstock. Il. Today, we offer vegetables and herbs, grown without any chemical pesticides or fertilizers, including many gourmet varieties. We sell at the Woodstock Farmers’ Market and through our newly announced CSA, with pickup available at the farm. We also expect to produce wine and table grapes within the next couple of years.

  Number of Shares: 30
  Full Share: $500/year from June 15 – Oct. 31
  Half Share: Add the cheese option for $85 (20 weeks @ $4.25 per week).
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

• Walkup Heritage Farm and Garden, Inc. – Owner(s): Michael Walkup
  Address:
  5215 Walkup Road
  Crystal Lake, IL 60012

  Phone: (815) 459-7090

  Description: Last year (2005) we began offering a CSA to our local church and environmental group friends on a limited basis for the mid Summer season. This year we have expanded that to 3 seasons with two pickup days (Wednesdays, 3 to 6 and Saturdays 10 to 5) with a total of 12 and 13 shares respectively. The total shares for the season will therefore equal 75 (25 per season for 3 seasons) each share is for 10 weeks, 30 for the full year.

  Number of Shares: 75
  Full Share: $160 Season One, 10 weeks $200 Season Two, 10 weeks $175 Season Three, 10 weeks $450 all three. Pick up days Wed or Sat “Will Work for Food” program available.
  Delivery or Pickup: both

• Whispering Pines Produce – Owner(s): Cassandra McKinney
  Address:
  5603 N Spring Grove Rd
  Johnsburg, IL 60050

  Phone: 815-353-2892

  Description: Whispering Pines Produce is a small “Certified Organic” family farm located in Northeastern Illinois. We grow an assortment of vegetables, herbs, and fruits that can be purchased from July 1 through October 15. Produce can be purchased via a roadside stand and through a traditional 12 week CSA subscription. Weekly orders will also be accepted via phone or email. All orders will be available to pick up during operating hours or at an arranged time. We also participate in the McHenry Farmers Market on Thursdays from 4 – 7:30PM through September 25th.Our farm offers summer internships and accepts volunteers on a regular basis. For more information please contact Cassandra.

  Number of Shares: 10
  Full Share: $360 for a 12 week share
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

McLean County

• Dearing Country Farms – Owners: Brad and Jackie Dearing
  Address:
  16410 N 800 East Rd,
  Bloomington, IL 61705

  Description: 2012 Summer CSA Details – We are offering 4 options for our CSA this year, pickups will be on Thursdays from 4-8pm, June thru October..

  A) Produce Only- $320.00 /21 wks. This share will consist of seasonally available produce like radishes, onions, lettuce, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, okra, squash, zucchini, sweet corn, etc.

  B) Meat & Eggs – $360.00 /21 wks. A whole or cut up chicken averaging 3 pounds or 2 pounds of ground beef and a dozen eggs (Large, Extra Large or Jumbo) for 21 weeks.

  C) Chicken, Beef & Eggs – $620.00 /21 wks. A whole or cut up chicken averaging 3 pounds and 2 pounds of ground beef and a dozen eggs (Large, Extra Large or Jumbo) for 21 weeks.

  D) Milk & Eggs – $270.00 /21 wks. A dozen eggs and a half gallon of goat milk each week.

  We follow USDA Organic Program standards (not NOP certified) and are members of Certified Naturally Grown! For complete details see our website DearingCountryFarms.com!

Richland County

• Clay Bank Farms – Owner(s): Patrick Jennings
  Address:
  2699 Illinois N130
  Olney IL 62450

  Phone: (618) 863-2606

  Description: This 80-acre CSA is beginning its production with ten acres of organic produce. The farm is not certified at this time. They specialize in organic produce and berries, with blackberries and raspberries, as well as asparagus. The cost is approximately $300 per family for an extended season that runs from May through October. A work program is available to offset part of the share cost.

  Acreage: 80

Shelby County

• Triple S Farms Organic Buying Club – Owner(s): Stan Schutte
  Address:
  Route 1, Box 122A
  Stewardson, IL 62463

  Phone: 217-895-3652
  Email: tripls@RR1.net

  Description: Stan Schutte offers his organic meats and vegetables to customers in Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, and Decatur via a “buying club” arrangement that is similar to a CSA. Call Stan for details.

  Number of Shares: 12
  Full Share: You agree to buy a minimum of $25 per month of farm products, meats or vegetables, there is no upper limit.
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Stark County

• Broad Branch Farm – Owner(s): Anita & Brian Poeppel
  Address:
  Rural Route 1 Box 44
  Wyoming, IL 61491

  Phone: 309-231-9290
  Website: www.broadbranchfarm.com

  Description: Since adding the CSA in 2003, it has been a huge success. We continue to grow new things each year to keep a large variety of food in the boxes. New vegetables this year include garlic, parsnips, fennel, and kohlrabi. It’s a wonderful way to present your family with fresh organic vegetables picked at their peak of ripeness. Your investment in our farm allows us to continue producing high quality food that bears no burden on our environment. It keeps the earth clean and your food local – just where it belongs!

  Acreage: 8
  Number of Shares: 150
  Full Share: $340/year
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Union County

• Genesis Growers – Owner(s): Vicki
  Address:
  8373 E. 3000 S. Road St.
  Anne, IL 60964

  Phone: (815) 933-1454

  Description: Vicki Westerhoff began growing her own organic food several years ago after a long illness that wasn’t responding to conventional treatment. She now farms the land she considers a physical and spiritual haven. When you talk about produce, if you name it, Genesis Growers has probably got it. They grow more than 60 varieties of vegetables. Vicki gets as many heirloom and OP varieties as she can, particularly in tomatoes, peppers, and lettuces. The Westerhoffs also raise about 200 chickens for both meat and eggs, and keep a handful of cattle for beef. Like most farmers, Vicki and her sons Jonathan, 16, and Jacob, 28, wear many hats-crew leaders, farm laborers, tractor operators, and market workers, for starters. Outside the family, Vicki primarily employs local young people, believing that a small family farm should be a source of employment for the community. Though not certified organic to date, Genesis Growers practices sustainable agriculture based on organic principles.

  Acreage: 20

• Zanjabil Gardens – Owner(s): Kamal Rashid
  Address:
  Lot 145 Illinois Farm
  St Anne, IL 60944

  Phone: 773-343-3781
  Website: http://www.localharvest.org/zanjabil-gardens-M12061

  Description: Zanjabil Gardens is 6.1 acre vegetable farm using biointensive organic methods (currently transitional). Zanjabil are currently in start up mode and will be organized as a CSA. Zanjabil seeks to supply local schools and food security organizations. Kamal Rashid is the farmer and he has experience in organic gardening dating back to 1996. All of our produce is grown using only open pollinated certified organic seeds grown under mulch, row tunnels, with drip irrigation and vegetable based compost.

  Acreage: 6
  Number of Shares: 20
  Full Share: $500/year
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

Vermilion County

• Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm – Owner(s): Jody Osmund
  Address:
  1985 N 3609th Rd
  Ottawa, IL

  Phone: 815-431-9544

  Description: Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm is third generation farm just north of Ottawa, Illinois (and an hour and a half drive southwest of the city of Chicago) that has been farmed conventionally with a conservation bent for the past sixty years. It is now being converted wholly to using sustainable practices and organic methods.

  Acreage: 40
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

Will County

• Fresh Harvest Farm – Owner(s): Patty McPhillips
  Address:
  Stuenkel Rd & Rt. 45
  Frankfort, IL 60423

  Phone: 708-945-9993

  Description: Members pick up their shares at drop off locations in Orland Park, Frankfort and Western Springs. We grow a wide variety of vegetables, herbs and some flowers for bouquets. We use only natural and sustainable growing methods to protect our soil, our plants, our members and ourselves.

  Number of Shares: 50
  Full Share: $520/year
  Half Share: $320/year
  Delivery or Pickup: both

Woodford County

• Blue Schoolhouse Farm – Owner(s): Bill Davison
  Address:
  550 CR 1625 E
  Congerville, IL 61729

  Phone: 309-467-9228
  E-Mail: blueschoolhouse@yahoo.com
  Description: Blue Schoolhouse farm offers their CSA members a wonderful selection of vegetables and some fruits. Subscribers may also order eggs or chicken. All may be picked up on the farm in rural Eureka.

  Acreage: 8

• Henry’s Farm – Owner(s): Henry Brockman
  Address:
  432 Grimm Rd.
  Congerville, IL

  Phone: 309-965-2771
  Website: http://www.henrysfarm.com  **

  Description: We are at the Evanston Farmer’s Market every Saturday and we have a CSA that serves the Bloomington-Peoria area.

  Acreage: 60
  Number of Shares: 100
  Full Share: 13wks/$13per box
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

• Organic Pastures Meat CSA – Owner(s): Larry and Marilyn Wettstein
  Address:
  669 County Road 1800 E
  Eureka, IL 61530

  Phone: 309-467-6006
  Email: orgpas@mtco.com

  Description: Organic Pastures offers an economical way to get an assortment of cuts of organic beef into your home every month. A typical share might be two pounds of ground beef, a pound of stew meat, a pound of New York Strip steaks, and a sirloin tip roast. Every month’s share is slightly different, but will always include a good variety of cuts. CSA members may also put in special requests to buy other organic meats, such as a lamb or a holiday turkey or ham.

• Teresa’s Fruit CSA – Owner(s): Teresa Santiago
  Address:
  302 W. Sunny Lane
  Eureka, IL 61530

  Phone: 309-467-4251
  Email: teresajeans@cs.com

  Description: If you want organic fruit that will make your taste buds dance with pleasure, sign up for Teresa’s Fruit CSA and get flavorful, farm fresh strawberries, rhubarb, raspberries, blackberries, and many exotic melons. On the way are also many varieties of apples, pears, nectarines, cherries, peaches, plums, grapes, hardy kiwis, aronia, sea buckthorn, ground cherries, persimmons, currants, gooseberries, and pawpaws. Pick-up is Tuesdays in Bloomington.

  Number of Shares: 60

• The Country Coop CSA – Owner(s): Leon Kaeb
  Address:
  P.O. Box 153,
  Congerville, IL 61729

  Phone: 309-448-2237
  Email: leannandmore@juno.com

  Description: We are producers of free range chickens for egg sales. The Land Connection is a non-profit organization which endorses and promotes organic livestock and produce. As owners of several acres in Central Illinois, The Land Connection seeks to open up the possibility for more organically produced products to get to the consumer. We have entered a business agreement with them to produce eggs for consumers in this area.

  Number of Shares: 30
  Full Share: $91/half year renewable in November and May
  Half Share: $45.50/half year renewable in November and May
  Delivery or Pickup: pickup

CSA’s closely bordering Illinois

• Janzow Farms – Owner(s): Julie & Micah Janzow
  Address:
  530 Buffalo Ln
  Cape Girardeau, MO 63701

  Phone: 573-339-9580

  Description: Produce is delivered weekly to subscribers and contains approximately $10 of produce. Most deliveries consist of 3-6 different vegetables varying depending on what’s in season. Additional herbs and fruits are also delivered as available.

  Number of Shares: 7
  Full Share: $250/20 weeks
  Half Share: $150/10 weeks
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

• Kings Hill Farm – Owner(s): Tom Ulick
  Address:
  19370 County Highway G
  Mineral Point WI

  Phone: 888-752-2301
  Website: http://www.kingshillfarm.com

  Description: A new concept in CSA. We deliver year round. No large up front payments required – you pay weekly. Skip deliveries when you need to. Order items of your choice from our weekly “Special Order List” at very reasonable prices. Full shares (2 FULL shopping bags) and Half shares are available. Pick up sites in Chicago and suburbs, Rockford and SW Wisconsin – other areas possible. Internship positions are available, and we welcome visitors/volunteers. Members are invited to attend our monthly camp-out/gatherings. Other projects include: beekeeping, greenhouse growing, prairie plants and much more.

  Acreage: 850
  Number of Shares: 1000
  Full Share: Members pay weekly for their shares, full shares $33
  Half Share: Half shares $22. Special orders are extra
  Delivery or Pickup: both

• Prospera Farms – Owner(s): Leo Sances Michael Zink
  Address:
  W3566 County Road E
  Berlin, WI 54923

  Phone: 920-361-4747

  Description: The diverse ecology that surrounds our farm helps add to the biodiversity that we feel creates a healthier farm. All crops are grown naturally without the use of chemical pesticides or fertilizers. Instead, we work with nature by rotating crops, composting, spreading livestock manure, and cover cropping to create a healthy, sustainable, closed farming system. We are in the process of establishing a small orchard, medicinal woodland plants such as ginseng and bloodroot, also plugging wild mushroom mycelium into the woods. We raise organically grown cut flowers available at farmers markets and as a share in our CSA program.

  Acreage: 5
  Number of Shares: 50
  Full Share: $400.00 for the season for a 15 week 2 person share in the Chicago area and $460 for a family of 4 share or $350 for a 2 person 16 week share in the Green Lake County area. Farm fresh eggs and flower bouquets are also available as an add-on.
  Half Share: Something new for 2006: 8 week share delivered every other week. $215 for family share and $185 for 2 person share.
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

• Scotch Hill Farms – Owner(s): Tony and Dela Ends
  Address:
  910 Scotch Hill Road
  Brodhead , WI 53520

  Phone: 608 897-4288

  Description: Our family raises 100 varieties of vegetables and herbs. We manage our soil and crops – not with chemical pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers – but with chemical-free practices and quality organic matter (from goat, sheep and poultry manure). We sell subscriptions of fresh produce that we raise on our farm in south central Wisconsin. We plant, tend, harvest, wash, bag and deliver this produce fresh to drop-off sites near your home.

  Full Share: 20 weeks of vegetables and herbs for $25.50 per week, a total of $510
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

• Sweet Earth Organic Farm – Owner(s): Renee
  Address:
  P.O. Box 323
  Wauzeka, WI 53826

  Phone: (608) 875-6026
  Website: http://www.sweetearthorganicfarm.com

  Description: Our CSA provides weekly deliveries of seasonal produce to central locations within the Chicagoland area and some surrounding suburbs. The quality of our fruits and veggies is very important to us and we want you to experience food as if you were bringing it in from the garden to the table the day of our delivery. We also grow many heirloom varieties of fruits and veggies to support our vegetable heritage and to keep that legacy vital. Sweet Earth Organic Farm is a 120 acre ridgetop farm in southwestern Wisconsin. Our sustainable and farming practices encourage abundant wildlife habitat and help to protect the environment. The farm was first certified organic in 1974 and we’ve been growing organically ever since. We also use some biodynamic farming practices to increase the overall “life force” and energy of the farm and its harvest. Please join us in our partnership with nature. Support life in and through your food!

  Acreage: 120
  Full Share: 20wks/$485
  Half Share: 20wks/$375
  Delivery or Pickup: both

• Tomato Mountain – Owner(s): Chris Covelli and Christa Barfknecht
  Address:
  N7720 Sandy Hook Rd.
  Brooklyn, WI 53521

  Phone: 608-862-3446
  Website: www.tomatomountain.com

  Description: Tomato Mountain is a 12-acre certified organic farm located 20 miles south of Madison, Wisconsin. We grow a large variety of vegetables, greens, herbs, and berries ranging from basic staples to heirlooms and specialties. Our customers include the Dane County Farmers’ Market and Harvest Restaurant in Madison, Chicago’s Green City Market and Frontera Grill in Chicago, and our growing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), or produce “subscription” service.

  Acreage: 12
  Full Share: 675
  Half Share: 425
  Delivery or Pickup: Pickup

• Two Onion Farm – Owner(s): Chris and Juli McGuire
  Address:
  19638 Cottage Inn Road
  Belmont, WI 53510

  Phone: (608) 762-5335
  Website: http://www.twoonionfarm.com/

  Description: Two Onion Farm raises fresh, flavorful, healthy vegetables on our fertile loam soil in Belmont, WI. We select vegetable varieties for their taste, raise them under the best conditions, pick them at the peak of ripeness, and carefully wash, cool, and pack them. We use no chemical pesticides or fertilizers to grow our produce. Our farm members receive a box of these vegetables weekly or biweekly from June to December. Each box comes with a newsletter of recipes and cooking tips. Members pick up their boxes at convenient pickup locations in Madison, Dubuque, Galena, and southwestern Wisconsin.

  We offer both full season memberships, with deliveries from June through December, and autumn memberships, with deliveries only from October through December. We have filled up our available full season memberships for 2006. We do still have autumn memberships available.

  Full Share: Receive vegetables from June 18 to December 16. Weekly full season members receive 24 boxes; biweekly full season members receive 12 boxes. Most members enroll for a full season.
  Half Share: Receive vegetables from October 8 to December 16. Weekly autumn members receive 8 boxes; biweekly autumn members receive 4 boxes. A small number of autumn memberships are available; they’re great for people who don’t need vegetables during the summer because they raise their own garden, shop at farmers markets, or are away from home.
  Delivery or Pickup: both