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Apr 25, 2020
1 min

Tomato time

Not even cold weather and rain could stop production at the farm today. We spent half the day working in the greenhouse transplanting ov...

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Apr 20, 2020
1 min

Ready. Set. Go!

The newest satellite location at Ginger Creek Church is finally getting a little tlc. The beautiful weather this weekend finally gave us...

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Apr 17, 2020
1 min

New hens!?

Unfortunately, this week we lost our favorite hen. Blanca had been sick for about a week and we were not able to save her. We are not sur...

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Apr 13, 2020
1 min

First up

Today we are so excited to see the first seedlings start to appear. We planted these peapods one week ago. Other young vegetables alread...

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Apr 12, 2020
1 min

We struck gold!

All things have different value to different people. To us, this massive pile of horse manure worth its weight in gold! We have been farm...

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Mar 24, 2020
1 min

Chicken apartments

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 ...

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Mar 11, 2020
1 min

New partnership

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

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Feb 19, 2020
1 min

First up

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...

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Feb 8, 2020
1 min

Our first retail sale!

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

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Jan 24, 2020
1 min

Year in review

In 2018 we set out to prove a point. We turned an acre of grassland into a farm that produced almost 1,900 pounds of fresh produce for a...

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Jan 24, 2020
1 min

The fun never stops!

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...

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Dec 13, 2019
1 min

Back to normal

The animals are all safe and warm back in the greenhouse. The temperature inside is a comfortable 40 degrees most days. The hens are st...

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Dec 10, 2019
1 min

Say hello!

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

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Dec 6, 2019
1 min

An expectant mother??

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....

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Nov 30, 2019
1 min

The Chicken Whisperer

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 abo...

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Nov 30, 2019
1 min

Winter is here!

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 w...

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Nov 5, 2019
1 min

Our newest family member

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

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Oct 28, 2019
1 min

AU mens hockey team

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

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Oct 25, 2019
1 min

GreyStar volunteer day

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 i...

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Oct 15, 2019
1 min

Naperville Magazine

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 ...

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