Chicago WAPF Food Resource List

Here is an updated list of resources for acquiring traditional foods in the Chicago area. If you would like a resource to be added to this list, please send us an email at ChicagoWAPF at gmail dot com.

Family Farms Cooperative
Contact: Richard Hebron – familyfarmscoop@netzero.com, (269) 476-8883.
Products: Raw milk products (milk, cream, butter), Grass-fed meats and eggs.
Distribution: Products are available through a cow share program. Deliveries are made once every two weeks to Aurora, West Dundee, Forest Park, Highland Park, Edgewater, DesPlaines, and Schaumburg.

Fresh From the Farm Cooperative
Contact: Sheri Giachetto – smg9(at)comcast(dot)net, (630) 257-9092.
Products: Organic, farm-sourced raw dairy, meats, produce, raw honey and bee pollen.
Distribution: Weekly Pickup on Wednesdays in the SW Chicago Suburbs.
Began in May 2001 as a result of the family’s pursuit for high quality food directly from the farmer/producer. They have assembled an array of foods from various providers which include organic, grass fed beef, pork, pastured chickens, pastured eggs, raw milk, cream, and other raw dairy products. Raw honey and bee pollen is also available as well as organic produce in the summer months, all from local, independent, organic farmers. They provide these foods fresh on a weekly basis (Weds pickup) from their southwest suburban home, and currently serve over 120 families from all areas of the Chicago metro. They continue to welcome new families to their cooperative and are happy to answer any questions you may have. They continue to search for the highest quality products at the most reasonable prices for their members as well as their own use.

Hopeful Farms
Contact: Melvin & Pauline Fry – (260) 593-2996 ext 5 (leave a message), Ligonier, IN, www.localharvest.org/farms/M20543.
Products: Wholesome, Grass-based Dairy, Beef, Poultry & Egg Products.
Distribution: Currently available only for pick-up at the farm. With enough interest, a buyer’s club could be established.
"My brothers and I raise pastured beef, dairy cows, chicken and turkeys. We bought the farm from my father, and are striving towards the goal of becoming organically certified. We offer products that are free of antibiotics, growth hormones, pesticides, and herbicides. The beef cattle are Scottish Highlanders, good grazers producing leaner meat. Our pastured poultry are moved every day to fresh grass. The free-ranging hens have pasture with the cattle to produce the nutritious, richly colored, good-tasting eggs health conscious people prefer. Their "egg-mobile" building is pulled along to give them new grazing areas. Baled hay and GMO free feed are given as needed. We have a herd share program for milk. We are about 30 miles southeast of Goshen Indiana. Be sure to call a couple days ahead if you plan on stopping by, as our freezers are up the road a ways."

Prairie Trace Farms
Contact: Jeanne and Allan Sexton – dean1938(at)aol(dot)com, (815) 454-2320, (815) 303-3646 cell; Cherie – (815)303-6226.
Products: 100% grass-fed beef, raised on certified organic pastures (no antibiotics, drugs, hormones, vaccines), Organic pastured broilers, Organic pastured eggs.
Distribution: Direct to consumer with monthly deliveries to Elgin. Other delivery points can be set up.

Stutzman Family Farm
Contact: Nathaniel Stutzman – (217) 856-9009, Humboldt, IL.
Products: Raw milk, cream, butter, mozzarella cheese and eggs – all grass-fed, no grain.
Distribution: Direct to consumer. Currently delivering to Wisconsin, could provide for a Chicago buyers club.
Family farm with small herd located 3 hours outside of Chicago. Working to achieve organic certification which should be complete by the end of the year.

Wallace Family Farms
Contact: Nick Wallace - nick.wallace(at)wallacefarms(dot)com, www.wallacefarms.com.
Products: Grass-fed beef and pork, wild seafood.
Distribution: Right now they’re hoping to have deliveries in the city every 6-7 weeks. The next two tentatively scheduled deliveries are March 29 and May 10. The Chicago delivery location is the St. Benedict Parish, 2215 West Irving Park Road (just east of Western Ave). You can pick up your delivery in the parking lot that is inside the school and can be accessed from the street just west of the parish. They also have several other deliveries in the suburbs and surrounding areas.

Organic Pastures (California)
Contact: 1-877-RAW MILK, www.organicpastures.com.
Products: Raw dairy products.
Distribution: Products shipped frozen, raw dairy shipped outside of California is labeled for Pet Consumption only.

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Please note – this listing is entirely voluntary, no advertising is accepted. It is provided as a service to our local community to facilitate access to local foods in line with the fundamental principles of the Weston A. Price Foundation. If you know of a resource that should be added here, please contact us.

Chicago WAPF
Contact: Shannon Sullivan – Shannon(at)EatForChange(dot)com, (773) 496-4106.
The Chicago Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation is currently organized by Shannon Sullivan. If you would like to offer your time and energy to organize events, buyers clubs or other activities and help grow the chapter, please let her know.

The Weston A. Price Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies. Specific goals include establishment of universal access to clean, certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy formula for infants. For more information, visit www.WestonAPrice.org.