Organised lists 3 farms in Illinois, including 3 egg farms, 3 honey farms and 2 butchers. 2 deliver to your door.
Sonrise FarmsMeat & eggs · Penfield4.7 (7 reviews)Sonrise Farms is a family farm in Penfield, in central Illinois, run by Dan and Diane Hesterberg, who moved from conventional grain growing to pasture based livestock farming. Their beef is grass finished and raised without grain, hormones or antibiotics, while their chickens live in portable shelters moved across the pasture and eat non GMO grains.
Alongside the meat they sell raw honey and baked goods made with stone milled flours from their farm bakery. Orders are collected at the farm during short pickup windows on Wednesday and Saturday.Honey Creek Farm, SpringfieldEggs · Springfield5 (6 reviews)Honey Creek Farm is a small farm in Springfield, Illinois producing raw honey and a range of handcrafted goods made with natural methods and plenty of attention to detail. The farm keeps bees and takes a traditional, small scale approach to everything it makes.
Visitors are welcome, and the farm sells directly to its local community, with delivery available. Opening times are limited to a few days a week, so it is worth ringing ahead before making the trip.First Light FarmsRaw milk, meat & eggs · WaucondaFirst Light Farms is a small family farm at Wauconda in Lake County, Illinois, run by a family who came to farming from science and engineering. They keep Jersey, Brown Swiss and Guernsey cows for milk, Icelandic, Katahdin and Polypay sheep, heritage chickens, Pekin and Khaki ducks, Pearl Gray guinea fowl, and an Anatolian Shepherd called Bria who guards them all. In their own words the animals are rotationally grazed on pasture and supplemented with alfalfa through the winter, and the farm never uses soy, pesticides, hormones, routine antibiotics or unnatural supplements. They eat everything they produce at their own table, which is how they say they hold each product to the same standard.
Illinois law does not allow raw milk to be sold without a licence, so the milk goes out through a legal herdshare instead. Members buy a share of the herd once a season, pay a monthly boarding fee that covers their cow's care, feed and milking, and collect about a gallon a week on a prearranged day. Everything else is ordered through the website and collected at the farm, because they offer local pickup only rather than shipping. The shop carries beef and lamb cuts, slow grown chicken and turkey, unwashed free range eggs with duck, quail and guinea fowl eggs through the summer, organic honey and a tallow cream made in house. There are no standard hours, each pickup is arranged with you and most orders can be collected any day of the week. Farm visits are welcome by appointment.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
