Thank you to everyone who came out for our Creekside Market yesterday. We appreciate all the support and are especially happy that the on farm Market Day has been a success.

If you were not able to make the Market Day and would like to purchase our Creekside Honey or hand made goats milk and honey soap, contact us to make arrangements for pick-up. Those items will not be in our self-service stand.

email: pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com

call: 815-467-5259 (leave a message if no answer)

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We are 2 days away from our July Creekside Market – July 15th from 9 am until 2 pm

We will have honey from hives that are maintained on our farm. It was harvested on Sunday and will be delivered to us tomorrow. The pictured bottle is a sample from our bee keeper and it is wonderful! 

We will also have freshly dug garlic – big beautiful bulbs!

Everything we sell is raised or made on our farm so we will have “in season” vegetables – lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, several types of beets, zucchini, eggplant and various herbs. We will be starting to harvest our garlic this week and also hope to be picking beans and tomatoes.

We will have our hand-made goat milk soap made from Staudacher Farms goat milk and some of our yarn from our Suri alpacas.

The Market runs from 9 am until 2 pm in our stand on the farm. After 2, the vegetables and eggs will be in the stand as normal.

Tomorrow we will be hosting our second Creekside Market here on the farm. The market is held in our stand from 9-2.

We will have plenty of eggs, freshly picked lettuce and broccoli, several types of herbs, our farm made goats milk and honey soap, yarn and fiber from our Suri alpacas AND we had our first batch of meat chickens processed yesterday. If you pre-ordered, I will have them ready for pick up. We have some that are not spoken for so we will be selling those until they are sold out.

Our June Creekside Market will be one week from today on June 10th from 9 am until 2 pm.

We will have fresh chicken available for pick-up. We prefer that you pre-order if you would like more than 1 or 2 so that we can have it ready for you.

Our chickens are raised outside and their shelter is moved to fresh grass daily. They eat certified organic feed (Never any GMO grain).

We will be trying a new processor this year (only 2 hours away rather than 3) and expect the packaging will be the same as our old processor. We offer a whole chicken – either un-cut or cut into 10 pieces. Our price for the un-cut is still $4.00 per pound and the chicken will average 3.5 to 4 pounds. The processor charges us for the cutting so add $1.50 per chicken for cut up.

Our processing day is Thursday so there will be a limited amount of fresh chicken available on Saturday. If you would like to place an order, either call 815-467-5259 or email us at pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com. We will need your name, phone number and the quantity you want.

We will also have our hand made goats milk soap, alpaca items, plenty of eggs and are starting to pick broccoli and lettuce. 

We have seed available from our Glass Gem corn. This is seed that was selected from last years crop for a wide range of color. They are packaged in plastic bags and in our cooler in the stand. Plant in a block of 4 rows for best pollination and color mix

$2.00 for a 1.5 oz bag (approx. 200 seeds)

It’s finally warm enough to keep the tomato and pepper plants in the stand!

We grow our plants in organic potting soil and never use any type of insecticide or fungicide. Some of the tomato varieties we have are Cherokee Purple, Mortgage Lifter, Black Heirloom, Black Beauty, Royal Hillbilly, Paul Robeson, Sungold Cherry, Black Cherry, Sunrise Bumblebee, Pink Bumblebee, Piglet Willie and Galiana. We have a few plants of each variety and expect that they will be gone by the end of the weekend.

Our pepper varieties are, King of the North, Flavorburst, Lunchbox  Mix, Aura, Glow, Melrose, Purple jalapeno and Poblano.

All plants are $2.50 each.

Thank You to everyone who came out for our first ever Creekside Market.

It was a great success and we really appreciate everyone’s support!

Our next market day will be on Saturday, June 10^th from 9-2

We anticipate having more veggies and eggs available (weather and hens permitting) along with our hand made soap, alpaca products and fresh chicken!

We will add more information on what we will have as we get closer to that date.

We will be holding our own market on the farm this summer rather than packing up and hauling everything to Morris. The first Market will be this coming Saturday-May 6th-from 9 until 2 pm.

We will be in our vegetable stand with our own seasonal produce, eggs, stone ground heirloom cornmeal, organic tomato and sweet pepper transplants, alpaca fiber items (yarn, nest ball kits, raw fiber), and our own home-made soap!

The stand will still continue to be open during our normal hours – Every day from 8 am until 7 pm but will not be stocked with the alpaca items, soap or frozen chickens when they become available. 

Come out and visit this Saturday! We can answer your questions about the plants we have available and if the weather is nice enough, I will be spinning some fiber into yarn with my spinning wheel!

After a long week with lots of planting, we are ready for the coming rain (and a chiropractic adjustment) – LOL!

Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, beets, lettuce, potatoes, spinach, strawberry plants and zinnias – all in the ground!

We will have organic transplants available for sale beginning on May 6th.

They are currently getting acclimated to the cooler temperatures and will be ready for planting in your garden as soon as the danger of frost has passed. Tomatoes do not like temperatures below 50 degrees and will be stunted by too many cool nights. And, peppers are even more sensitive to cold. So, help your plants live up to their full potential by planting them at the correct time!

We grow our seeds in organic soil in our own greenhouse with no insecticides or chemicals of any type. We have a variety of heirloom tomatoes and several different types of sweet peppers. 

We are just beginning to harvest asparagus! We have a few bags in the stand – $5.00 per bag and will also be adding wheat berries so you can make this delicious salad. The recipe is on our blog.

We also have eggs in the stand so you can make our other favorite asparagus dish – scrambled eggs with asparagus. 

Super excited by today’s development!

 We were contacted by a local bee keeper who would like to place some of his hives on our farm! There are not enough exclamation points to convey how excited I am!!!!! He will maintain the hives, which is fantastic since I have a bee allergy, and we will get the benefits of the pollination AND HONEY from our own farm! 

This will be the perfect compliment to our pollinator habitat – 20 acres of bee food!

Our morning project was building a gate in the lean to so that Thomas and Luna can easily (meaning we don’t need to put halters and leads on) have access to the pasture that’s been re-seeded and “resting” since last spring. Since we only want them in there for a couple of hours at a time, the gate eliminates lots of stressful catching.

I love helping my family with the garden, there are so much things to do around here. Taking care of the animals, feeding them everyday, taking care of the crops, watering them when the soil is too dry and maintaining everything as clean as you possibly can.

For the past 3 months we have been giving it a thought, and finally agreed on starting with our new project. We found this website https://www.doitallcontracting.ca online where we contacted Home Renovations Do It All Contracting company and they helped us build some extra storage in the farm and also remodel our kitchen, because years have passed since we checked the house with experts.

Just in case anyone wondered what we do in the winter – here is a partial list

Start seeds, read books (that inspire us to continue what we’re doing), make lovely yarn, re-paint our wagon/sign (so people can actually read it), build hay racks, keep little (and big) alpacas warm and full, raise hens (so we will have eggs this spring) – and dream about summer and a good tomato!