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Henry’s Farm: A Diverse Sustainable Illinois Vegetable FarmHenry’s Farm: A Diverse Sustainable Illinois Vegetable Farm

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Where To Find Us. Where To Find Us. Henry's Farm CSA is now taking new members! Henry’s Farm is a sustainable, multi-generational, small-scale, labor-intensive farming operation in Central Illinois. It is hidden deep in the rolling hills and fertile bottom land of the Mackinaw River Valley, where periodic flooding over thousands of years left deposits of nutrient-rich silt, creating black topsoil so deep we have never seen the bottom of it. Map by Hiroko K. Brockman. Every harvest day, wave after wave of...

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Brockman Family Sustainable Farming (and Writing)

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Henry's Farm has been providing thousands of people with great vegetables for over two decades. Teresa's Farms include 2 acres of aronia berry bushes, and 2 acres of nearly 100 different varieties of fruits, and dozens of varieties of herbs. Red Barn Farm is where Jill Brockman-Cummings and her family raise the goats who provide the main ingredient for her soaps. Three generations of the Brockman family live and work on their biodiverse and ecologically sustainable farm in Central Illinois. Join our CSA ...

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Brockman family farmer and writer bios, plus centennial farm history.

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Counting our parents and children, we are now the 3rd, 4th, and 5th generations to be farming sustainably in Central Illinois. These three siblings from the 4th generation are engaged in growing food for their families and communities:. Henry grows vegetables on his extremely biodiverse (over 650 varieties) farm. Near Congerville. Here you see him in his hoophouse. Teresa grows fruits and herbs on her farms. Jill grows fruit, raises animals, and makes goat milk soap on her family's Red Barn Farm. A non-p...

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Teresa’s Fruit, Herbs, Plant Starts and Aronia Juice, Jams & Teas

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Fruits, Herbs and Teas. Where To Find Us. Fruits, Herbs and Teas. Where To Find Us. Top: The aronia field near Henry's Farm. Bottom: Sunny Lane Farm. Our fruit and herb farm is in Eureka, IL, in the Mackinaw River valley of central Illinois, between Bloomington and Peoria. We began farming in the spring of 2001 on a narrow strip of about 3 acres of rich soil alongside our home. The land backs up onto park district land, so you feel you are out in the country even though you are in town. To add your name ...

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Terra Brockman’s Writings And The Topics She Writes And Speaks About

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Terra Brockman's The Seasons on Henry's Farm. Through closely observed natural phenomena and engagingly told stories, The Seasons on Henry’s Farm takes readers deep inside the world of a small-scale farmer, and in so doing, opens a window into what sustainable farming really entails and why it is vital and relevant to everyone who eats. Though rooted in the rolling oak-hickory hills and fertile fields and flood plains of the Mackinaw River Valley, the book ranges widely, incorporating literary, scientifi...

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Brockman Family Sustainable Farming (and Writing)

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Henry's Farm has been providing thousands of people with great vegetables for over two decades. Teresa's Farms include 2 acres of aronia berry bushes, and 2 acres of nearly 100 different varieties of fruits, and dozens of varieties of herbs. Red Barn Farm is where Jill Brockman-Cummings and her family raise the goats who provide the main ingredient for her soaps. Three generations of the Brockman family live and work on their biodiverse and ecologically sustainable farm in Central Illinois. Join our CSA ...

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Brockman family writers on farm and food: Henry, Herman, Teresa, Zoe

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Henry is a man of many talents, two of which are writing and farming. He says that if something happens to him physically so that he's unable to farm, he'll write. And if something happens to his brain so he can't write, he'll farm. Luckily, there is winter, when he sometimes finds time to write. 850 includes domestic U.S. shipping and handling. Remember in junior high when the science teacher placed a ball at the top of an inclined plane? We are there with bales of hay to spread. You may have seen studi...

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Red Barn Farm’s goats provide milk for soaps with organic ingredients.

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Where To Find Us. Where To Find Us. Red Barn Farm is where I moved (I’m Jill, the youngest of the Brockman siblings) with my husband Will and our two small daughters in 1998. It is part of the Brockman Family Centennial Farm, where 5 generations of our family have lived. The primary way that Red Barn Farm is sustainable is through its large diversity of plants and animals. This is the traditional way that farms sustained themselves before government subsidies. If weather or other unforeseen event...Red B...

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Hungry for Homemade: October 2013

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Recipes and tales of experiments in a home kitchen. View my complete profile. Words of warning about recipes. 1 Recipes may have mixed measurements. I have created recipes in Europe and Canada and the United States, and I am comfortable thinking in metric or English system. If I'm in a hurry with a post, I may not convert everything from metric to English. 2 Recipes may be littered with commentary. The asides are reminders to me about ingredients and methods so I know exactly what I did last time. 1/4 cu...