Hey farm friends! Happy Spring! We hope you’re doing well and taking on this new year with a vengeance! I guess things are not really back to normal, but here’s to hoping they will be soon! 2020 certainly was a weird year, and that’s putting it mildly. The social distancing didn’t bother us most of the time since we live a quarter mile away from our nearest neighbors and keep very busy here on the farm. But it did affect our summer plans with family and friends. We certainly missed all of those good times, especially since it was our 1.5 year old’s first active summer, it would have been nice to have family and our friends with kids all together, but there’s always this summer! Fingers crossed.
Our CSA in 2020 went very well. Not surprisingly since many people opted to have produce delivered directly to them, and we are always happy to oblige. We brought in a lot of new customers this year and really made the most of our forced weekends at home. Our gardens really loved all the time we spent with them. Haha. Oh and so did the chickens and goats etc…
As former city people we really wanted to provide fresh produce and eggs to the Chicagoland area, and we did. We have so many customers in Chicago and the surrounding burbs, but now we have our 2nd farmhand due in July and have made the decision that one of us trucking it out to Chicago and the burbs is just not feasible with a 2 year old and a newborn, so we have decided to put a hold on all deliveries east of Rockford for 2021. It was a tough decision since we have soooo many amazing customers in the Chicagoland area who we look forward to seeing every delivery, but it’s just what is best for our family. Especially with a July delivery date. Seriously, we miss you all already though.
With that said, we have decided to expand service to the Rockford, Winnebago, Stockton, Freeport and Galena areas. We have recieved a lot of interest already after just 1 Facebook ad. So we’re happy that we can continue to run a successful CSA. Our CSA interest form has been updated and we’ll be posting this year’s parameters of our 2021 CSA to the website shortly.
Ok, that’s it for now. Thank you for reading! And Happy 1st Day of Spring!!! We hope you get some sun on your face today! It’s beautiful outside!!!
If you have questions about our 2021 season, please contact us!
