Deep Roots Farm Stand

09/12/2023

Our harvest time is just about done. What a great season. Thanks to all who stopped by.
We currently have plenty of HOT PEPPERS. Honey, eggs, and baked goods will be available all year long.

06/16/2023

Garden Update: We picked over 10 gallons of strawberries yesterday. Tomatoes and zucchini starting to fruit. Garlic should be ready in the next few weeks. Turnips, Greens, Onions, and lettuce are ready. Honey Bees are really making a lot of honey! I just wish we had some rain soon.

05/23/2023

Well the garden plots are almost all planted. Just have about 85 more tomatoes to be transplanted. We planted 400 pepper plants this past weekend.
Radishes should be ready to pick this weekend.

08/25/2022

So true!

My thoughts from the tractor seat.
By Don Hartman.

I sure miss the kind of people I grew up around... the kind that knew how to fix things when they broke, like trucks, tractors, leaky faucets, and such. Those from the generation that had guts, character and willpower... the ones that lived through world wars and the Great Depression... not by choice but because they had to.

I miss the early morning coffee drinkers... the ones that got up early and stayed at it late because that's just what you do if you want to get it done. I miss those folks that helped each other in times of need... but refused to ask others for help. The ones that didn’t have much, but they were content with what little they had.

I miss the generation that also was easygoing and never too busy to stop and visit over the fence and just chew the fat, or had time to stop and cut a watermelon on the turn row. The kinda folks that would offer a glass of tea, or maybe sit in the shade and eat a milk nickel on a hot summer day. Folks that when the weekends came around would get together and play cards or dominos. The ones that wanted to go hunting and fishing together.

My generation is the last taught by those great men and women. They are now the ones with gnarled hands and stooped shoulders, white hair and wrinkled skin. Many are fading, and many are dead and gone.

That generation accomplished so much and prospered, they passed that prosperity on without most of us having earned it... now many have gotten to the point that it is expected.
Each generation wants to give their children a life better than they had, which is a noble gesture... but a true disservice.
But of all they taught us and gave us, there is one thing that a lot have failed to learn and that is... that most things that come easy don’t last... but the things that last don’t come easy.

Be blessed.

06/29/2022

Well, it’s been two months since we’ve posted anything. This is the list of produce that we will be selling this year. Just getting the stand ready. We have been picking small amounts of beets, kale,turnips,carrots, eggplant,and onions.

04/28/2022

Well it is been a wet and cold Spring here in Northern Illinois this year.
That being said, we have planted the following:
1000 potatoes
6000 onions
4500 garlic (last fall).
Over 400 tomato plants and 400 pepper plants in the greenhouses ready to put in the ground in a couple weeks.
Radishes,Beets, Turnips and Carrots are growing well.
We will be starting the rest of our vegetables this week indoors in pots ready to be transplanted when the time comes.
The bees are bringing back pollen from the trees and the flowers that are starting to bloom.
The bee in the picture below has a yellow bunch of pollen on her leg.
That’s how they bring it to the hive.
I’ll try to keep you posted more often as things start growing.

02/03/2022

Micro greens are ready to harvest.
We just started planting pepper and tomato plants into flats. So many different varieties this year. We are in zone 5b. It’s early but once germinated and the plants are strong we will set out in the greenhouse. Nothing will be transplanted into the gardens until June 1st. Frost is not my friend.

01/01/2022

Happy New Year!
We would like thank all our friends and customers for another great year. The new seed catalogs are here and we can’t wait to start planting. We will start planting our onion seeds this week indoors in trays, and transplant this Spring. If there is anything you would like us to plant this season,please let us know. We plan on expanding our gardens again.
We had a outstanding honey harvest and left plenty of honey in the hives so hopefully the bees will survive the winter.
We will keep you up to date more often as we start our planting schedule. Thanks for your support.
Deep Roots Farm Stand

10/09/2021

Well, Fall is officially here at Deep Roots Farm Stand. Everything has been harvested. We would like to thank everyone who stopped by and made this our best year. We still will continue to sell our Honey, Eggs, and all the other sweets and breads all year. We will start planting over 6000 heads of garlic within the next two weeks. We have expanded our growing area once again to hopefully handle the demand for fresh produce.
If you have pumpkins, gourds, or straw bales that you need to get rid of we will take them. We will use these for compost. You can drop them off by the stand. Thanks again so much!

07/29/2021

We have plenty of cucumbers, zucchini, and tomatoes. Stop by and pick up what you need for the weekend. Five gallons plus of Green Beans being picked daily as well. Zucchini Bread will be in the refrigerator on Saturday for all that ordered some. Thanks!

07/10/2021

We have an abundance of Zucchini! That means we will be taking orders for Zucchini Bread. With or without nuts. PM us if you are interested.

06/19/2021

Just letting you know that we started picking produce. Radishes,Beets, Turnips, Kale, Lettuce,Onions, White stem cabbage, and tons of Garlic Scapes.
Everything we sell is grown here, no chemicals. We pick produce as it comes in. Quantities will get better each week.
We have over
400 Tomato plants 8 different types
200 Pepper plants hot and sweet
75 zucchini
100 cucumber slicers and pickle
3000 onion
6000 garlic
70 cantaloupe and melons
300 potato red and white
Radishes
Beets
Kale
Lettuce
Collard Greens
Swiss Chard
White stem cabbage aka Bok Choy
Broccoli
Eggs
Honey
One thing we don’t have is “RAIN”
and we need it bad.
Thanks, We hope to see you soon!
Leave a note if you need something or have any questions.