This week at the Farm...

Support Your Local Farmers Supper Club
What do you get when you combine the fabulous style and artisan flare of Moveable Feast with a glorious summertime evening surrounded by the sights, songs and fragrances of the Heritage Prairie Farm gardens? A supper club experience you won’t want to miss!

Join us for a delectable meal and enjoy live music at each of these great evenings. Limited seating is available so make your reservation today by calling (630) 443-8253.

When: Thursday September 18
Where: Heritage Prairie Farm
2N308 Brundige Road, Elburn, IL 60119
Time: 6:30 PM reception, dinner at 7:00 PM
BYOB:  Refreshing Bron’s Bees honey and ginger lemonade will be served. Feel free to bring your favorite beverage to enjoy.
Price: $60 per ticket or $55 per ticket when paying for 4 or more tickets

Payment is due upon reservation. Full refund available 48 hours prior to event. Arrangements will be made for inclement weather.

Fun with Farm Camp
Do you know how to identify a cabbage worm or a potato beetle, or build a compost pile? Our farm campers do! Children have been a part of Garden Explorers, Critter Camp and Junior Counselor training over the past month on the farm. They've done things like plant a vegetable garden, identify beneficial harmful insects, and take a field trip to historic Garfield farm.

Local middle schooler KZ Plamondon of St. Charles brought 16 different breeds of her chickens during Critter camp, and showed kids the difference between pullets and cockerels, and hens and roosters. Campers helped wash and clean KZ's chickens, who could be seen at the Kane County Fair this past week. KZ took a Grand Prize ribbon for one of her chickens! Local eggs from these prize chickens can be found at Heritage Prairie Market. We’ve got more weeks of camp added for ages 4-6 starting July 21^st.  Camps with open registration are Farm Critter Camp, Nature Crafts, Garden Explorers, and Budding Farmers.  Click here for more information.

Grace, pictured on the right, shows off one of the six kids born this spring. Campers take responsibility in caring for the goats by feeding, cleaning pens and grooming the goats!

Growing with the Season
It's an exciting time of year to be at the farm. Tuscano kale, chard, amaranth, lambsquarter, and Red Cross lettuce are just a few of the greens (not to mention the 18 varieties of heirloom tomatoes ripening in the greenhouse and outside) available now. Keep your eyes open for Farm Camp Radishes, planted and grown by our youngest farmers and available in our store. The sweet snap peas have succumbed to the heat, but will be back in the fall. Beans will be coming in shortly. Even amidst all the summer activity, our farmers Ted, Katie, and Mike are beginning fall plans and plantings, and focusing on re-mineralizing the soil between summer and fall crops.

You can find our tasty produce at local area restaurants- Sage Bistro (St. Charles), Niche (Geneva), Isabella's (Geneva), Chalkboard (Chicago), and Moveable Feast (Geneva).

Sungold tomato plants are trellised to the ceiling of the greenhouse.

Heritage Prairie Farmers go International
Farmers Mike Bollinger and Katie Prochaska have been invited to be a part of the Terra Madre meeting, an international gathering of farmers, educators, and students from 148 countries world wide. The meeting will be held in late October in Turin, Italy. The Terra Madre network is made up of all those who wish to act to preserve, encourage, and support sustainable food production methods.

Story Time
Fridays 11 am and 1:3o pm
Let your child enjoy a story while you shop, or join in our story time, led by farm camp director Carolyn Crosby. Story Time is intended for ages 3 through 6.

Pony Rides
Tina the pony makes her weekly appearance every Saturday morning from 9 am until noon. Tina is sophisticated 31 years old, and has taken up pony rides in her retirement. She can carry small, younger riders for rides on the farm.

From Our Farm, to Our Market, to Your Kitchen
Our Market is the heart of our small farm. This grocery store has local and organic food products ranging from dairy and fresh eggs to beef, chicken, pork to honeys and vinegar--basically all you need to stock your kitchen with wholesome goodness. We're open weekdays from 9am to 6pm, Saturdays from 9am to 4pm, and Sundays noon to 4pm. And if you are looking for something special, please call ahead and we will do our best to have it for you when you come.

We encourage you to walk around our farming operation when you come to the store. Greenhouses are full of tomatoes, eggplants and peppers, and the fields are in full bloom. In fact, with a system of movable greenhouses, Heritage Prairie is on the cutting edge of high-production, low-acreage food growing in the upper Midwest. Our farming staff is always willing to take the time to describe whatever projects we're in the middle of...in fact if you're not careful you'll be digging in and spending the day...

But whether you have a morning to wander around in our country setting or you need to quickly get in and out with milk and eggs, Heritage Prairie Market is a refreshing change from the strip mall grocery stores. Bring the kids and let them enjoy the farm while you shop.

Heritage Prairie Presents
Farm Camp 2008
Farm camp was full of fun, sun, tasty foods, lively bugs, and lots of learning. Look for our fall programs for all ages of kids.

Channel 7 featured a story on their Health Beat about the health benefits of honey. Watch for our farm, and our beekeeper Bronwyn as she tells about the honey bees, and shares why local honey is best.  

Heritage Prairie customer, and noted chef of Niche Restaurant in Geneva, Jeremy Lycan prepared the meal of a lifetime at the James Beard House in New York. Read the article.

The Elburn Herald featured an article about us. You can read it online or download it as a PDF file.

Curious about Community Supported Agriculture? Want to know more? Visit Erehwon Farm to find out more!