As we start to get cabin fever from the quarantine, we find new ways to be creative and productive. Today we made nesting boxes for the newly expanded flock...

Today im proud to announce another new addition to the Charity Blooms family! We have made arrangements with Ginger Creek Community Church to host a communi...

New veggie seedlings are popping up every day now! These are the first round of jalepenos and eggplant to appear. These are 2 weeks old. There are about 2...

Charity Blooms cat toys hit the retail shelves today! They are stuffed with our very own homegrown organic catnip. Valentines day, st.patricks day, and ve...

Many people ask what we do at the farm in the winter. Here is your answer! Opportunity is always knocking. Two weeks ago we heard about a possible donation o...

The animals are all safe and warm back in the greenhouse. The temperature inside is a comfortable 40 degrees most days. The hens are still laying about 3-5...

Yesterday Oreo had 2 babies! The gray one seems perfectly healthy and moving about already. The black one was found wedged in between the bars on the bottom...

We are excited and hopeful that one of our rabbits might be pregnant! Oreo has been active with both male rabbits over the past 2 weeks. Her tummy is swoll...

This is Jesse Amaro. He and his wife Margarita are our neighbors to the south. Jesse grew up on a large farm in Mexico. They owned about 500 acres and man...

The property took a beating this week from an unexpected wind storm. 3 months of hard work building the greenhouse was put to the test with record 58mph win...

Today we introduce the newest member of the Charity Blooms family. This is our new hen Blanca. She is called an Easter Egger because she lays big, beauti...

The Aurora University mens hockey team showed up dressed to impress this Saturday. They were obviously unaware of what we had planned for them. Despite th...

This week we were lucky to have our good frend Brad and his GreyStar team stop by for a few hours. We had a huge to-do list and kocked it out in half the ti...

Have to give a big shout out to Naperville Magazine for doing this awesome feature on founder Rob and the August Harvest Dinner in their October issue. We a...

Today we had a very energetic troop of Brownies come visit. These 4 ladies worked super hard. They got to plant garlic, separate sunflower seeds, planted ...

This weekend17 Aurora University volunteers stop by. They came of their own free will to do something good for the community. The weather was awful but they...

This week our new friends at the AID Keeler Center and Oswego school district 308 visited the farm. Such a huge step for us in our community outreach effort...

The new outdoor kitchen is almost complete! This necessary component of our farm will allow us to prepare lunch on-site for our many groups of volunteers. ...

As the end of the season slowly approaches, we are still harvesting gorgeous tomatoes, eggplant, okra, peppers and squash. We hit 1134 lbs this week. Fal...