Nichols Farm & Orchard
2025 verified · 2026 TBA📍 Marengo, Illinois
🥬 Produce
| Season & 2026 dates | 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. |
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| Farm food | 🥬 Produce |
| How to buy | Illinois MarketMaker, the find-a-farm directory the Illinois Department of Agriculture points to, lists these ways to buy direct: selling at farmers markets, online ordering. Products as published in that directory: Apples, Apricots, Artichokes, Asparagus, Beans, Beets, Blackberries, Blueberries, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Cherries, Collards, Corn, Cucumbers, Currants, Eggplant, Figs, Fruit, Garlic, Gooseberries, Gourds (Edible), Grains & Oilseeds, Grapes, and 31 more. The farm describes itself this way in its directory profile: Variety is our specialty!! We grow over 1000 produce items including fruits and vegetables. Grow over 80 varieties of tomatoes, 168 varieties of apples. You can find us year-round at Farmers Markets in Chicago, Evanston, Oak Park, Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, Hinsdale, Elmhurst, Schaumburg and others. |
| Tillage & soil | This farm has not published how it works its soil, so we are not going to guess. If you farm here, tell us and we will add it. See the farms that do say. |
| Prices | 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). |
| Good to know | 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. |
| Farmers markets | Green City Market West Loop (Sat 8am-1pm) ⚠️ 2025 schedule, not yet updated for 2026 Green City Market Lincoln Park (Wed-Sat 7am-1pm) Immanuel Indoor Farmers Market ⚠️ No published schedule found, check before you go Oak Park Farmers' Market Elmhurst Farmers Market (Wed 7am-1pm) Green City Market Avondale Winter Market (Sat 8am-1pm) ⚠️ 2025 schedule, not yet updated for 2026 |
| Address | 2602 Hawthorn Road, Marengo, IL 60152 |
Verification
Last verified 2026-08-28 against these sources:
- il.foodmarketmaker.com · https://il.foodmarketmaker.com/business/bus-1F76ADE6
- il.foodmarketmaker.com · https://il.foodmarketmaker.com/
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