The Ryder Family Farm

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The Ryder Family Farm

We're Pope County's founding CSA farm offering spring/ summer veggie subscription boxes, USDA licens Now offering locally grown fall garden mums & pumpkins!

We also offer summer CSA produce basket memberships, USDA licensed pasture raised eggs, homemade goat milk soap and more.

04/02/2026

Look at these two twin babies dozing in the barn tonight! They are tuckered out because they have started zooming about the barnyard and getting used to those legs beneath them...the only way goats can.

Now we need some name ideas. Momma's name is Munch...short for Munchkin. The girls is black and tan while her brother is chocolate brown.

Put your suggestions below 👇🏻

03/23/2026

It's been a busy week in the barn! We welcomed another new lamb (it's fleece truly as white as snow) and a pair of twin baby goats (a girl and a boy) born to our momma affectionately named "Munch."

They'll soon join Fern, the lamb born right before winter storm Fern in late January as she runs and jumps about the barnyard!

02/05/2026

🌱 CSA sign-ups are open—and this is the lowest price of the season!

Join our farm CSA and enjoy fresh, locally grown produce all season long. Choose the share that fits your household:

🥕 12-week or 16-week CSA options
🧺 Half-basket or full-basket shares
🍄 Optional add-ons: fresh mushrooms, early-season spring veggies, and home delivery (available for an additional fee)

⏰ Early Bird pricing ends February 12
📉 Prices increase after that date
🚜 Limited number of CSA spots available

Lock in the best price of the year before shares sell out.
👉 Sign up here: https://ryder-family-farm.square.site/product/southern-illinois-produce-share/3

01/22/2026

A wee bit early, but we are excited to welcome our first spring lamb into the world! This little girl is happy and healthy to join the farm right before Snowpacolypse 2026 hits us. Her momma Mochi (Mow-chee) has plenty of milk so they're stocked and ready for the flakes to fly.

Anyone have a name idea for this pretty girl?

12/09/2025

A surprise batch of self-hatched chicks appeared in the barn this week. This broody momma did so good sitting on those eggs in the cold and then keeping the barn cats from eating her 9-chicks for a couple days before she introduced them to us. One has some slipped tendons, so Talina is playing momma-hen to it in the house...feeding, watering, and doing rehab so we can get it walking again.

It's never a dull moment around the farm!

12/06/2025

🎄 🎁 'Tis the season for a little Christmas in the Country Craft and Vendor Show at the Golconda Golden Circle until 3pm today. We are stocked up on our handcrafted goat milk soap, sourced from our own farm making a truly local, regenerative product.

We also have some fun, farm-related gift ideas too! Stop by and shop with all the other great local vendors and knock some of that gift shopping off your to-do list.

09/20/2025

I had the incredible opportunity to head to Farm Aid and this is Day #3...the BIG event...a day full of music and love for farmers and the food they grow each and every day. The morning kicked off with the press event where founding board members Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young - Reprise Records spoke about the never ending crisis in our country...keeping farmers afloat and food on our tables.

We heard from many inspiring Minnesota farmers this morning about the challenges they're facing in starting farms or simply keeping the lights on as investors and corporations continuously push more and more family farmers out.

Catch the Farm Aid 40 livestream here:
https://www.farmaid.org/

08/09/2025

At the Illinois State Fair for work and tradition is to stop by the IDOA Agriculture Tent and get my yearly apple cider slushie to cool off. Apparently, we are in the cider business and didn't even know it! ♥️ this sign!

07/15/2025

Gorgeous sunset over the farm tonight. We hope yours was pretty too!

Address

167 State Highway 146 East
Golconda, IL
62938

Opening Hours

10am - 4pm

Telephone

+16186150063

Website

http://www.ryderfamilyfarm.com/

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