Immanuel Indoor Farmers Market

📍 Cabery, IL

Heritage Black Spanish Aztec and Bronze Breasted turkeys are offered for pre-order each fall. Frozen turkey pickups are Saturday November 21 with deliveries Wednesday November 18; fresh turkey pickups are Tuesday November 24 and Wednesday November 25.

🌱 pasture-raised (farm's own description)

💵 Turkeys are $9.75 a pound for large birds of about 20 to 25 pounds, $10.75 a pound for medium birds of 14 to 19 pounds and $11.75 a pound for small birds of 9 to 13 pounds, with a $50 deposit a bird taken off the total. Meat shares are a twelve month half share at 5lbs a month, $71 each, totalling 60lbs for $852, or a twelve month whole share at 10lbs a month, $133 each, totalling 120lbs for $1,596. Eggs are $8 a dozen with a four dozen limit per share, and a separate egg subscription runs from $8.10 a dozen a month.

ℹ️ The farm says its birds are all pasture-raised on its organic farm outside Stelle, Illinois.

🚗 Pickup or delivery at 8 spots off the farm

📍 Marengo, IL

The summer CSA runs 24 weeks from mid May to October, with an 8 week fall share in November and December and a winter share twice a month from January to March.

💵 CSA shares as the farm prices them: standard fruit and vegetable share $1,152 for 24 weeks ($48 a week), chef's premium $1,800 ($75 a week), small share $912 ($38 a week), fall share $384 for 8 weeks ($48 a week), winter share $276 ($46 a week).

ℹ️ The farm delivers CSA shares to over 40 Chicagoland locations or to your home; home deliveries are made on Fridays. It says it delivers throughout most of the Chicagoland area on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Its early signup sale runs January 1 to 15.

📍 Chicago Heights, IL

Illinois MarketMaker, the find-a-farm directory the Illinois Department of Agriculture points to, lists these ways to buy direct: on-farm sales, a farm or roadside stand, selling at farmers markets. Products as published in that directory: Basil, Catnip, Chives, Cilantro, Crafts, Cucumbers, Dill, Eggplant, Fennel, Fruit, Gourds (Edible), Hay & Forage, Herbs, Hot Peppers (Chili Peppers), Kale, Lavender, Lemon Balm, Marjoram, Mint, Muskmelons, Nursery & Horticulture Products, Oregano, Parsley, Peppers, Pumpkins, Rhubarb, Rosemary, Sage, and 11 more. The farm describes itself this way in its directory profile: In spring we have a large assortment of bedding plants, vegetable plants, baskets, herbs, perennials, geraniums. Sell at Farmers Markets at Daley Plaza, Federal Plaza, Green City Market and Lincoln Park

ℹ️ The directory lists these on site: picnic area, greenhouse. The farm says it has been Food Alliance Certified since August 2009, which it describes as certification that farms, ranches and food handlers produce and process food in a sustainable and safe way.

🚗 Pickup or delivery at 3 spots off the farm