Chicago Patchwork Farms

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Come one, come all.. my dears, my loves
✴️ Farmstand is tomorrow 4-7pm 🤗

The trees are falling over themselves trying to get our farm-fresh organic produce. Walk, roll, bike, run.. whatever you gotta do to secure some yummy greens! 🏃🏾‍♂️🏃‍♀️

We've been busting b***y prepping fields and planting the seeds... and what an abundance to share! 🥕🥕🥕

We have had our fair share of setbacks with the fire, trees falling, stolen power generator and power tools, and just yesterday our wheelbarrows, tool boxes, and hand tools being stolen. People pulling up with angle grinders- busting into our shipping container and ransacking our cooler.. but we are still here!! 💪🏾💪🏾

So come share in this abundance that won't falter ✨️✨️

Also this Thursday is volunteering at Patchwork 4-7pm .. see you all soon:)

This Strawberry Full moon has been showing her power this week 🌕🌕

There will be no farmstand this weekend due to effects from the fire Wednesday. 🌶

As a farm, we are recovering power access, and taking care of some minor damages
our chickens are cluckin along, finding bugs- as if nothing happened 🐔🐔

We are looking for help from local chefs, fermenters, and everyone alike.. we have beautiful produce that wants to be loved and enjoyed. Turnips, buttergem lettuce, sugar loaf Chicory, carrots, garlic scapes, arugula and more! Please contact us if you can help us move these veggies 🥕🥬

Thank you for your kind words and wishes💞
Thank you to those who helped us move the chickens and for housing them for the night🏠
Thankful nobody sustained injuries and the firefighters were there to help 👨‍🚒

We will see you all next week for farmstand on Wednesday 6/26!!

☀️☀️Farmstand is back up and running 🏃🏾‍♂️🏃🏾‍♂️
Come one Come all!!

We are slinging beets, lettuce, salad greens, carrots, and more!🥬🥕

Slide through with our sliding scale prices to see the full selection of veggies 🥬🧄🫛

We will 🐝 out here at our 2825 w Chicago ave location today and every Wednesday(4-7pm) and Saturday (10am- 2pm) until mid fall.

See you soon 💞
📸 pictured: Gertrude the chicken

It's time for more fun in the sun 🌞 Come volunteer with us and get your hands dirty!
Thank you for helping to build such a bee-autiful space in years past 🐝
We love our volunteers, and can't wait to share more time this season🪱 so grab your sunscreen and water and come on out to our patchwork of sites 🥕🥬🧄

Patchwork: 2825 W Chicago Ave
1st and 3rd Monday every month starting 5/2: 4pm-7pm
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City Farm: 550 W Division Ave
TBD
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The Plant: 1400 W 46th St
1st and 3rd Monday every month starting 5/20, 4pm-6pm
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Looking forward to learning and growing with you!

Be sure to check out IG for any last minute changes 📃

Hello friends! We’re excited to share that the awesome group that brought you farm dinners at ’s Chicago ave farm in 2022 is back with a series of dinners for summer 2024! This year we will be having our dinners at ’s amazing building and another patchwork farm location!

Farm dinners offer an opportunity for friends and neighbors to get to know the local agriculture and culinary scene happening in their neighborhood. 

Our first dinner on April 19 kicks off Spring with a 6-course dinner with beverages included, put together by a team of local chefs and featuring organically grown, hyper-seasonal, local produce. The dinners come from a team including and other businesses at the Plant!

RSVP on our websites! Under “Farm Dinners” on Patchwork site and “Events” on the Plant site.

We hope to see you there!

Who wants to learn to grow edible mushrooms?!✨✨✨🍄🪵

Pop up and plug into our first ever mushroom grow skill share!

🪵Saturday- 3/30/2024
🍄1:11 pm - 4:44ish pm
✨2825 W Chicago Ave

We’ll be practicing together how to grow shiitake, lions mane, and oyster mushrooms into some of locally sourced hard wood logs! 🪵 🦁 🍄

We’ll have some warm 🍲 and 🫖

Featuring some our veggies mushrooms and some special fermented 🍯 elixirs we made with our own herbs and fruits 🌿

Bring your own bowl spoon and a mugs🥄

We encourage all to come!
Bring family! 🧡💛💚💜❤️

If you have a drill and a 8.5mm or 5/16 drill bit bring it along to help us have some extra tools Ty!!

✨Free to pay as you please and 🙏🏾
✨ $33.33 suggested donation

✨60% of proceeds if this skill share and the rest to come this season will go to a mutual aid groups helping our refugee population and the rest to build out of our event space which we will be intending to host community kitchens . Open to collaborating to channel funds to the correct places.

🌱 Spring greens pesto, trash spear, and fermenting workshops coming soon stay tuned ..

RSVP not required but encouraged
Email or DM :-)

Please share!! 🧚

Huge thanks to our friend for the beautiful flyer!!

Vernal Equinox Blessings 🌞

🥕 We are ready to announce the release of our 2024 CSA sign ups! 🥦

Link in our Bio

The Sun’s rays have officially crossed the northern hemisphere which means
The spring peepers are singing 🐸
The seeds have been sown and we’re ready for community 💜

🌕 This is about to be our lucky number 13th growing season 💫

💐 Our 23 week CSA is a journey we take together as a community 💛

Our mission is to connect community to sliding scale good food, safe accessible green spaces, and nature based education in our urban ecosystem.
We promote our native being to the best of our abilites 🦋

We’ll have roots, greens,and fruity tooties seasonally available 🌽 🫑 🍅 🍆
And bulk honey at farm-stand 🍯

After 13 seasons we are grounded in the truth that is, without y’all there is no us.
We are committed to sustaining and living in harmony with the good life that exists here in this crazy beautiful part of the world.

So we cannot possibly express how grateful we are for all the support year in and year out, but just know these veggies are growing much more than meets the eye.

We aim to ramp up our programming with many workshop and opportunities to learn and grow with us, which in large part is made possible by our CSA 🍄 🌹 ❤️

We promote a healthy inclusive regenerative farming and community resilience ✊🏾🫶🏾 ✌🏾🐣




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Join us Next Monday for a little fire and tea with some of Teens from the Alternative Inc. Peace Ambassadors program!

Our chicken ladies would love to see you all tomorrow(11/22) for our pop up farmstand running from 2- 5:15pm

Last chance to grab salad greens, pumpkins 🎃 and squash, radishes, Sunchokes 🫚 and some other bonuses!

Hope to see you there 🐔🐔

We love food and we LOVE sharing it. Here are some pictures of what we be eating at the farm for our lunches. *Making them with our farm fresh ingredients. 🥕🌽🌶🥒
*Combining all the things we made separately into a big delicious meal.👨🏾‍🍳👩🏾‍🍳 Yummers

Let's do that together!
We are having a potluck this
Saturday 11/4 starting at 2(ish) at the farm.
Bring a dish to share if you can. We'll have the bonfire going and share in some good times and maybe tan lines (sun permitting) 🌞

Come through and share in community if you please

The first frost is right around the corner. Lettuce wrap up the season together! 🥬🥬

The Final week of farmstand and volunteer dates are here! As well as another celebration to be announced soon 💀 🌼 🌸

Patchwork Farmstand:
W 10/25 4-6pm
Sat 10/28 10am - 2pm
W 11/1 4-6 pm

Patchwork volunteer (2825 w Chicago ave):
●Wednesday 10/25 4-6 pm
●Saturday 10/28 10am-2 pm

City Farm volunteer: (550 w division st)
●Sunday 10/29 10 am-2 pm

The Plant volunteer (1400 w 46th st)
●Thursday 10/26 4-6 pm

Join us This Saturday the 21st 🪓💀😵🍄🥀 (redo of the Friday the 13th)

We’ll be celebrating and giving thanks to the land and the community of beings that have made the space the special place it is today

We’re so grateful for the love from our community this season and look forward to doing many more little vents like this ✨
we appreciate yall making space if you can make it out to see the space we have put together

Little farm tour at 4:30 followed by musica
Y comida .,.,
A dyeing demo to highlight our dye garden will start around 3 and continue throughout the parttyyy

Sliding Scale suggested donation

$6-$13
45 for the flyyyyyer. 💋

And the bands to play usa
@ Chelsea
@ smogstar sailing pact

BYOBowl and BYOCup spoon if you please

BYOBoooos and BYOCostumes welcomed 😈👻🎃🤡

There will be a RAFFLE

Join us This Fryday da 13th 🪓💀😵🍄🥀

We’ll be celebrating and giving thanks to the land and the community of beings that have made the space the special place it is today

We’re so grateful for the love from our community this season and look forward to doing many more little events like this ✨
For now this is a little spontaneous so we appreciate yall making space if you can make it out to see the space we have put together

Little farm tour at 6:13 followed by musica
Y comida .,.,

Sliding Scale suggested donation

$6-$13
45 for the flyyyyyer. 💋

And the bands to play usa

@ SLOWBURNER

Pizza and corn soup may be in the werks
**jk corn was stolen last night haha already some tricks so must be some treats to come ooooo**

Bring your own Bowl and Cup spoon if you please

BYOB and costumes welcomed 😈👻🎃🤡

Join us This Fryday da 13th 🪓💀😵🍄🥀

We’ll be celebrating and giving thanks to the land and the community of beings that have made the space the special place it is today

We’re so grateful for the love from our community this season and look forward to doing many more little events like this ✨
For now this is a little spontaneous so we appreciate yall making space if you can make it out to see the space we have put together

Little farm tour at 6:13 followed by musica
Y comida .,.,

Sliding Scale suggested donation

$6-$13
45 for the flyyyyyer. 💋

And the bands to play usa



Pizza and corn soup may be in the werks
**jk corn was stolen last night haha already some tricks so must be some treats to come ooooo**

Bring your own Bowl and Cup spoon if you please

BYOB and costumes encouraged but not required 😈👻🎃🤡

Wednesday CSA WEEK 17

Did you know our farm has a Bring Your Own Bag CSA program?

We are in week 17 of 24 weeks for our weekly produce subscriptions.. and boy o boy does it look tasty.

This week we offered ...
Rainbow Swiss Chard🌈
Leeks
Sweet Corn from 🌽
Summer Squash
Sweet Potato Greens 👌
Chioggia Beets 🍥😵
Garlic Chives
Sage

We also have an herb CSA: shiso parilla
and an Egg CSA with farm fresh eggs from 🥚 🍳

A haul and a half for sure. We can't wait to show our CSA members what the rest of the season has in store!!
Keep an eye out in our instagram stories for what some of our CSA members make with their food! 🍽

Presto! We makin Pesto to raise money for our beautiful farm and would love your support ❤️

The Patchwork Pesto Project is here to EMPHASIZE the possibilities of cultivating & understanding the plants around us- especially those you might know these as "WEEDS". We want to create reciprocity with the land around us that feeds us so well.
Let's highlight the undervalued and often demonized plants that are packed with nutrition!! 🌱 🌿 yummmooo 😋

•Walk the farm with us to talk about these hidden gems 💎
•Harvest your favorites
•Make some pesto

We'll be using Sunflower oil sourced from Central Illinois and Sunflower kernels 🌻 🌻

Make sure to bring your own jar to take home your creation🫙

RSVP through email: [email protected]

Payment and donations can be sent through venmo

As the leaves start changing 🍁
we are still arranging
the plants and seeds
to fulfill the community's needs

Come enjoy the produce we've grown at our farmstand TOMORROW (Saturday)!!! We are open from 10 am-2 pm every Saturday morning

Muchas vegetales y frutas ricas.

Cucumbers, Corn, Arugula, peaches, Asian Pears from .. and more!

Get some of canned goods, baba ganoushe, ice creams.. what else will he make?

Come for the food and stay for Yoga with from 11 am-12 pm in the People's Patch

Volunteering 8:30 am-Noon (all curious welcome)
Can't wait to see you there :)

We got the greens greens greens

Farmstand just started! Get up and at em and eat em greens
We have dandelion leaves, galinsoga, ARUGULA
Collards, kale, and Swiss Chard.

What's more? Some yummy fruits: tomatoes, okra, eggplant, green peppers, peaches and blueberries 🫐 🍑 🍅

Stop by for some of pickles, canned goods, and sorbets 🍨

Yoga is from 11-12pm

We are here until 2 pm :)

A Beautiful Sunday at City Farm with our volunt-ears. 🌽 🌽
We checked the progress of the corn and look at how stunning it is already. The Huitlacoche is gracing us with its presence... Can't wait to make some delicious tacos soon. Mmmm mmm. Yummoo.
So very thankful for everyone .. You all are out of this world facing the sun and humidity to learn with us!!! Excited to see the weeks to come. The farm is transforming everyday thanks to you. let's grow with it 🌱 🌻

Our Farm Cat is MISSING. Friends, please reach out if you see her. Mooshi Mooshi is a small fluffy, friendly and rambunctious female. Brown and orange stripes with a white belly and green eyes. She’s a working animal on our Humboldt park (Chicago & California) farm keeping the veggies safe and she is well cared for

Happy Saturday! We are out here serving up fresh produce.
We have a delicious variety this week
Kohlrabi, Swiss Chard, cilantro.... POTATOES, etc
Come get it while it's hot [outside]

has delicious canned goods made from fresh farm ingredients
made homemade recycled paper products that will make cute gifts.

Every week farm stand is on
WEDS 4-7pm
&
SAT 10-2pm

🐝it’s that time folks, we’re ready for ya! Come volunteer with us! We would not be where we are today without all your help showing up and pitching in. We so so so appreciate our volunteers, and we make it a fun time for y’all too 🪱Did you know we grow across a Patchwork of sites throughout the city? And you can check them all out by showing up to volunteer!
Chicago Ave: 2625 W Chicago Ave
Saturdays starting 5/27, 10am-2pm
Wednesdays staring 4/31, 4pm-7pm
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City Farm: 550 W Division Ave
Sundays starting 5/28, 10am-2pm
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The Plant! 1400 W 46th St
Thursdays starting 6/1, 4pm-7pm
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Hope to see you there! Always a good idea to check here on IG in case we have any schedule changes day of.
Thank You!!!!!

🐓 🩷We’re Postponing our Volunteer Day at the Plant today, 5/18 thanks for understanding! We’re bouncing around all our sites getting everything ready for our first CSA pickup this Saturday, yaaaay! See you all very soon and watch close for another upcoming volunteer days and hours posting 🙃🌈🌻

🥬🥕Come grow with us! 🌽🍅
We have a handful of community beds available at both Chicago Ave and City Farm locations. Come be a part of developing channels between the farm and the community! Sliding scale and work-trade options, First come first serve!!
DM for more info 💚