Star Farm Chicago

Family Garden Days are back! 😎🌤️ Bring your family and friends down to Star Farm for Tours, Produce Giveaways, Cooking Demos, Storytelling, and more!

Family Garden Days are 3-6pm every 4th Wednesday of the month, from June-October @ 5152 S. Carpenter:

Wednesday, June 26th
Wednesday, July 24th
Wednesday, August 28th
Wednesday, September 25th
Wednesday, October 23rd

Are you looking to work and support food justice on the south side at the same time? Then, you should look into opportunities here at Star Farm. We have 2 positions open! If interested please send your cover letter and resume to [email protected] and be sure to include the job title in the subject line.

Another bountiful Harvest of tomatoes this week! What are some things you find yourself making with tomatoes? Comment below!
This week the harvest team with gather as many tomatoes as one can gather along with chard, eggplant, peppers, and beans! Our CSA members will snag some of these goodies and more! Have you gotten your CSA yet? Visit www.starfarmchicago.com and snag a bag today!

Happy Monday! We had an awesome event over the weekend thank you to all who attended our September Soiree!
Want to find ways to get involved with Sat Farm?
Visit our website at www.starfarmchicago.com and find out how you can support!

September Soiree! September 9, 2023
Have you ever been to a Star Farm event? Let this one be the one you attend! It's our most beautiful event showcasing the end of summer and embracing the season change! Thank you to all of our sponsors.
Snag a ticket by visiting https://shopstarfarmchicago.com/products/september-soiree-2

WIC coupons have been distributed to our senior community and no need to worry Star Farm is here!
We have been bringing our mobile fresh market to multiple senior residential towers offering a delectable spread of everything popping at the farm!
We offer affordable prices for organic naturally grown produce! We accept LINK, LINK Match coupons, senior WIC coupons and more!
Schedule your mobile market by sending us a note to [email protected]

September Soiree! September 9, 2023
Have you ever been to a Star Farm event? Let this one be the one you attend! It's our most beautiful event showcasing the end of summer and embracing the season change!
Snag a ticket by visiting https://shopstarfarmchicago.com/products/september-soiree-2

Eating in season means having the freshest, most nutrient rich, and tasty produce imaginable: can you believe this cooler weather improves greens? Swing by the farmers markets now through the end of October for sweet, tender greens to grace your soups, casseroles, smoothies, and everything in between! Once farmers market season is over, get the goodness delivered to you all winter long, check out our home delivery services at starfarmchicago.com via .app

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𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙥 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩: dragon's tongue beans! These beans are a delight to grow and delicious too. The bean pods are striped and each one looks different, coming in a variety of colors like pink, purple, green, and creamy yellow. You can eat them raw (the perfect farmer snack) or cooked. Growing at home and forget to harvest? No worries - they're a great dried bean too, similar to a pinto! via .app

Our glorious CSAs are out for delivery!

What’s in the bag:
carrots 🥕 kale 🥬 zucchini 🥒 basil 🌿 onion 🧅 raspberries 🍓 blueberries 🫐 farm fresh eggs 🥚 and a beautiful olive loaf from 🫒🥖

Want to join our CSA family? Head to our website to purchase a share! Weekly and biweekly options available 🥰

What a bounty! 🥕🥬🍒 Summer is in full-swing and our CSA is absolutely overflowing with fresh goodness. Visit our website (link in bio 💓) to sign up for our weekly or biweekly CSA delivery!

We're in our 5th year of working with youth and adults with disabilities on the farm! Not only do we offer programming and vocational training in the garden, we actively employ persons with disabilities in a variety of our activities--packing produce, harvesting, weeding, performing community outreach, landscaping, and staffing farmstands. Thank you Brian, pictured here, for being such an outstanding employee! Donate to support our programming at www.starfarmchicago.com/services
via .app

Spring is just around the corner and our plant babies know it! It feels sooo good to play with soil again. It might seem early, but now is the perfect time to start things like onions, scallions, kale, collards, broccoli, and mustards (swipe to see 🌱) indoors to get them in the ground in April.

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Can't wait to be a part of this historic good justice conference! Check out the session and all the other AMAZING workshops/presentations/exhibitions! Download the conference app

You might know Star Farm for our great produce and fun pop-ups, but our community programs are the core of our organization: Established in 2018, the Women and Children's program works with mothers to give them hands-on training in urban farming, food safety, landscaping, and outreach. They also receive business plan development training, cooking workshops, and soon will receive food safety certifications from the University of Illinois Extension. This seasonal program is unique because we offer childcare to the mothers and a stipend. Donate to support urban ag programming at www.starfarmchicago.com/services

Don't have space to compost? We'll take it! All it takes is a bucket picked up monthly, bi-monthly, or weekly from your residence, adding nourishment to our farm. Explore our Compost Shares and earn a bag of veggies or finished compost after your 6 month subscription www.starfarmchicago.com

We've got a limited number of carrot/apple/ginger juice today at the ! Come by and treat yourself with juice made with local, organic produce--no water added!

Let's drop a 🎶....into a salad.
This roasted beet and salad will not disappoint!
To all of our tune in Fridays to get all the tasty recipes for your produce! If you aren't on the CSA list you should be! Follow link in bio or visit starfarmchicago.com
*Roasted Beets & Pear Salad*
Ingredients

3/4 medium sized beets, any variety (I used a mix of red and golden beets)

a small drizzle of olive oil, for roasting the beets

1 ripe pear, chopped into ½ inch pieces

¼ cup walnuts, toasted

¼ cup feta cheese, crumbled (or more)

A few handfuls of salad greens of your choice

¼-1/2 cup cooked quinoa (optional, for a heartier salad)

Micro sprouts, for garnish (also optional)

1-2 tablespoons sunflower oil (found in our shop!)

A drizzle of balsamic vinegar

A drizzle of honey (found in our shop!)

Sea salt and fresh black pepper

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Roast the beets by drizzling them with a bit of olive oil, some salt and pepper, and wrapping them in foil. Depending on the size and freshness of your beets, they should take from 40 minutes to 1 hour to roast in the oven. Check occasionally, when they are fork-tender they are done. Set them aside to cool. As soon as they’re cool enough to touch, run them under the faucet and slide off the skins with your hands. Chop into roughly ½ inch cubes and set them aside to cool completely. (To save time, I suggest doing this up to one day ahead of time and popping them in the fridge until you’re ready to assemble the salad).

Assemble all salad ingredients on a platter. Drizzle with a liberal amount of sunflower oil, a bit of balsamic vinegar, a little honey, and some salt and pepper.

Need something to do tomorrow ??
Come by the farmers market.

Every Sunday between 9AM-3PM

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Visit our site! Offering meats, eggs, bread and more!

www.starfarmchicago.com

How would you feel about fresh carrot, apple, and ginger juice? In your CSA, at the market? Wouldn't you LOVE it?! Let us know and I'm thinking we're ready to whip up a lil subscription package 💚💛🧡❤️ www.starfarmchicago.com

Nothing like getting a great piece of mail! We're now certified naturally grown, and so happy to share this 3rd party certification with our community and clients. It's going to be a great season!

Remebering a mid-spring CSA from 2020: purple and green asparagus, tender and sweet strawberries, chard, red leaf lettuce, golden beets, watermelon radish, tri-color fingerling potatoes, and of course fesh eggs and bread. Spring seems like a dream away but the Star Farm Main Season CSA is now OPEN! subscribe and get the best of local, seasonal produce delivered to your door www.starfarmchicago.com

Remebering a mid-spring CSA from 2020: purple and green asparagus, tender and sweet strawberries, chard, red leaf lettuce, golden beets, watermelon radish, tri-color fingerling potatoes, and of course fesh eggs and bread. Spring seems like a dream away but the Star Farm Main Season CSA is now OPEN! subscribe and get the best of local, seasonal produce delivered to your door www.starfarmchicago.com

There might be lots of snow on the ground, but we're lining up our landscaping jobs for the springtime! If you're interested in fast-tracking your own mini-farm, we can help! Star Farm offers affordable landscaping packages for 4x8' raised beds complete with organic compost. We'll even hook you up with seedlings! Book your garden build for spring and be harvesting salad by May!