We are picking lots of heirloom tomatoes this week. Also in the stand – garlic, zucchini, yellow squash, beans, sweet peppers, bell peppers, jalapeno and poblano peppers, eggs and the last of the sunflowers.
Honey from our hives is available by request.
email – pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
call 815-467-5259
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We are back to picking beans and broccoli! In addition, we have beautiful orange sweet peppers, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, poblano peppers, jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, zucchini, lemon squash, garlic and our Animal Welfare Approved eggs.
We have honey from hives on our farm that is available on request. You can e-mail, call or send a message on FB to make arrangements. It’s $13.00 for a 1 pound jar.
pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
815-467-5259
In addition to an abundance of veggies, we will have our own honey and our hand-made goats milk soap for sale.
We’re still picking sweet corn (ahead of the raccoons who seem to agree that it’s delicious) and the heirloom tomatoes are in full production. We also have lemon squash, zucchini, cucumbers, a variety of sweet peppers, jalapeno and poblano peppers, garlic and lovely sunflowers!
After 2, the farm stand will continue to be open for veggies
The sweet corn is fantastic this year (and the raccoons agree!) We will continue to pick daily until it’s gone. We’re also getting some really nice heirloom tomatoes, sweet peppers, eggplant, lemon squash, cucumbers, jalapeno peppers, sunflowers and garlic that was harvested in June.
Our hens are doing their best to keep up with the demand for eggs, but we are selling out every day so are re-stocking the cooler as the eggs are laid.
We also have eggs, zucchini, yellow squash, eggplant, beans, beets, sweet peppers, garlic, kale and lots of cucumbers.
Honey is available on request
We are selling a Dill Pickle Kit for $5.00. Included are the pickle cucumbers, garlic, dill weed and a mature dill head. We have a recipe for Refrigerator Dills on our page in the Pam s Recipes section.
We also have plenty of slicing cucumbers in various sizes. They make great Bread and Butter pickles.
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 hosting bee hives that are maintained by a local bee keeper. The bees forage on our land which includes 20 acres of pollinator habitat, pollinator friendly trees, our organic gardens and lots of clover and dandelions that cover most of our lawn areas.
This is the first extraction from our hives and will be the lightest honey of the season. Late summer and fall honey will be darker in color because the flowers change with the seasons.
This is 100% honey from our own hives. No added corn syrup and no honey from other locations mixed in. We are selling it in a 1 pound jar for $13.00 or in a 2 ounce sample bear for $3.00.
The honey will be available at our monthly Creekside Market. The July Market will be tomorrow (Saturday July 15th) from 9 till 2.
If you are not able to make it to the market, you can contact us to make arrangements for pick-up. We will not be leaving it in the stand.
pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
815-467-5259 (leave a message if we don’t answer)
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We are having a fabulous beet crop this year – we planted more and they’re loving all the rain. So, we will be selling them by the half bushel (26 pounds) for $26.00 – that’s half of our normal price.
Our Cylindra beets are great for canning due to their “buttery” texture and sweet flavor. You can also use them for juicing. They store for weeks if you remove the tops and keep them in the frig.
Please contact us ahead of time so we can harvest them fresh for you. If you don’t want the tops, let us know – our hens love them!
You can reach us several ways:
pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
815-467-5259 (leave a message if we don’t answer)
Message us through our FB page
The honey bees are enjoying the clover in our pollinator habitat. Can’t wait for the clover honey!
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.
We made our first picking of Cylindra beets this morning. They are sweet and tender and are the favorite of our beet loving customers. They’re in the stand for $3.00 per bunch.
My favorite way to use them is to roast them and add them to a lettuce salad. We also chop the greens and add them to the salad.
We also have freshly picked round beets, mixed lettuce, broccoli, green cauliflower and plenty of eggs from our Animal Welfare Approved hens.
We’re starting to pick beets, cabbage and romaine lettuce. All washed and in the cooler.
We also have broccoli sprouts and plenty of eggs.
What is a garlic scape? It’s the flower stalk of a hard neck garlic plant. Soft neck garlic does not get a scape. One scape comes up from each plant one time during the growing season. So, when they’re gone – they’re gone for the season.
Garlic scapes are in the stand. $3.00 per bag. There is enough in a bag for a couple of pesto recipes and still some to use for stir fry, add some to your salad or any recipe where you would use green onions and want a little garlic flavor. My favorite way to use them is minced and mixed with butter to use for garlic bread or over hot pasta or veggies.
There is a recipe for Garlic Scape Pesto on our page under Pam’s Recipes
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Early this morning – before the heat was totaly hideous- picked, washed, spun and bagged lettuce. In the cooler for $3.00 per bag. Also picked some broccoli sprouts and there are plenty of eggs.
We have so many things happening this week that we can’t share it all. But here are a few of them.
Honey bees pollinating
lovely lettuce picked, washed and spun
Local goats milk and honey soap
Glass Gem and sweet corn coming along
Our Delaware hens are busy laying eggs
Our borrowed goats are busy eating weeds
This cute baby bunny has decided the barn is a safe place
Lots of hay baled
The bee hives are filling with honey
And, in addition to all that, we’re busy trying to keep all the animals hydrated and as cool as possible, and the veggies weeded and watered.
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)
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.
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!
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.
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.
