Purple Prairie Lavender Farm
Lisa and Steve welcome you to Purple Prairie Lavender Farm, LLC of Good Hope IL. Together they create quality handcrafted bath and body products available to the public. With a passion for Lavender, Lisa and Steve created Purple Prairie Lavender Farm. With more than 20000 plants in the ground, they continue to add-on more each…
Read MoreHickory Grove Farm
Hickory Grove Farm is a free range chicken farm located just outside of Colchester, IL. Here, you can purchase farm fresh eggs, goat’s milk, hormone free chicken, beef, pork & lamb. They are devoted to raising fresh, healthy animals to provide their consumers with safe affordable and fresh products. At Hickory Grove Farm, there are…
Read MoreCamels of Avon
Avon, IL‘s Bill Maloney owns Neff Co., which sells John Deere products in the village. He originally brought camels to town as a promotion for John Deere Day, after seeing some on a farm during a business trip to Missouri. Bill fell in love with the animals, and soon after decided to buy some camels of his…
Read MoreLittle Creek Alpacas Farm
Little Creek Alpacas is a small family farm located in Forgottonia‘s Plymouth, IL, less than 30 minutes southwest of Macomb, IL. They raise Suri and Huacaya alpacas, breeding mostly for appaloosa, pattern, light fawn, white, grey, and black fleece. Little Creek currently sell breeding stock, and fiber & pet Suri and Huacaya alpacas, as well as…
Read MoreSmiley’s Family Farm, Orchard & Pumpkin Patch
Smiley’s Family Farm, Orchard & Pumpkin Patch, located just outside of McDonough County‘s lovely village of Industry, IL, have 15 varieties of pumpkins, gourds, and squashes. They plant over 7-thousand pumpkin seeds a year, so there’s A LOT of pumpkins for sale; A LOT! They also have pie pumpkins for baking, tractor pulled hay-rack rides, fresh…
Read MoreAllison Organic Farm (W.I.U.)
In 1989, the Agriculture Department at Western Illinois University identified a historically pesticide-free, limited-fertilizer, 80-acre farm located near the WIU campus. The university wanted the land so it would be well-positioned to conduct research related to Low Input Sustainable Agriculture which, at the time, was the USDA’s new research initiative. Allison Organic Farm‘s 80-acre farm are located near…
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